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Title: The Misshapen Mind: How the Brain's Haphazard Evolution Left Us with Self-Destru
Post by: NicholeW. on August 20, 2008, 01:46:57 PM
Post by: NicholeW. on August 20, 2008, 01:46:57 PM
The Misshapen Mind: How the Brain's Haphazard Evolution Left Us with Self-Destructive Instincts
By Sasha Abramsky, The American Prospect. Posted August 20, 2008.
http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/95689/ (http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/95689/)
The human mind, we like to think, is an embodiment of perfection. For those with a religious inclination, our ability to think through issues logically, to construct narratives about our surroundings, and to recall events that happened decades earlier is proof positive of a divine hand at work. For the nonreligious, the mind is a secular miracle, an indication that, left to its own devices, evolution produces something akin to a Panglossian vision of the best outcomes in the best of all possible worlds.
By Sasha Abramsky, The American Prospect. Posted August 20, 2008.
http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/95689/ (http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/95689/)
The human mind, we like to think, is an embodiment of perfection. For those with a religious inclination, our ability to think through issues logically, to construct narratives about our surroundings, and to recall events that happened decades earlier is proof positive of a divine hand at work. For the nonreligious, the mind is a secular miracle, an indication that, left to its own devices, evolution produces something akin to a Panglossian vision of the best outcomes in the best of all possible worlds.