(February 5, 2016 at 6:03 pm)Cato Wrote:(February 5, 2016 at 5:39 pm)athrock Wrote: Except that I didn't set up a fork; I asked in one question WHY it would be evolutionarily advantageous for us to have this wiring.
Which is precisely the same question you have attempted to answer.
What has a better chance of surviving to produce offspring, a primate that can associate a snake's rattle with potential mortality or a primate that is oblivious?
It's recognition of cause that gives evolutionary advantage Kick in abstract thought and people start wondering 'what causes lightning?'. Ancients didn't possess the ability to ascertain the true cause of lightening and created god to satisfy their yearning for causal explanation. We're 'wired' for cause identification, not god.
Is that what this wiring is all about? Identification of causes?
