I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Why do people believe that there are dangerous implications of the idea that the mind is a product of the brain, that the brain is organized in part by the genome, and that the genome was shaped by natural selection?
Evolutionary psychologists suggest that humans experienced evolutionary benefits from brain developments that included aversion to loss and risk and from instincts for cooperation that helped strengthen communities.
The human brain is a product of natural selection. In the face of scarcity, our hominid great-great-uncles were unable to compete against our sapient great-great-grandparents' abilities to build more elaborate mental models and orchestrate their bodies' movements in more sophisticated ways.
Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.
The brain is the cornerstone of virtually every facet of our lives. I wish we knew more.
Evolution is an indispensable component of any satisfying explanation of our psychology.
The human brain is built to compare; it's Darwinian to consider an alternative when one presents itself.
Humans are distinguished from other species by a massive brain that enables us to imagine a future and influence it by what we do in the present. By using experience, knowledge and insight, our ancestors recognized they could anticipate dangers and opportunities and take steps to exploit advantages and avoid hazards.
I respond well to what I read of Immanuel Kant's idea that the world as we see it is absolutely a function of the way our brain works. In the modern parlance, it's an evolved machine that we carry with us.
Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.