(August 4, 2021 at 7:18 pm)evolcon Wrote:(August 4, 2021 at 12:27 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Bats speak bat, you speak human. Language in and of itself doesn't separate us from any other communicating animal. There's no separation. We are animals.
A human mind is an animal mind, that's the base contention of evolutionary psychology.
Language didn't make us what we are, we were that before we think we had any recognizable language. We developed language, as evolutionary psychologists have it, as a side effect of rigorous chewing borne out of necessity. We still go through that phase in development, every single one of us, right at the start of our life.
It appears that we are very far apart in our thinking about the mind. I really don't have the energy to engage in a drawn out discussion, so I'm done posting. If you're at all interested, my ideas are based mostly on those of Pinker, E O Wilson, Barkow, Cosmides, John Tooby and a few others in that school of thought.
Aw, c'mon. Supporting and defending one's own ideas can be energizing too, no?
I think evolutionary psychology is a great lens through which to view the psyche and come away with an adequate understanding. But I also kind of see it as a modality; other ways of approaching the mind can produce insights that the evolutionary approach can't or usually doesn't. Do you agree with that?
