Is the Cheater Detection a Madule?

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evolutionary psychologists say that cheater detection madul is just at the like, functional level in the people who are saying, missus boshet, this is likek ho. And so what they would say is there were selective pressures to make a sub system that's really good at taking this particular information and then outputting this particular information. They believe all of the mind is like that. So you have a memory system, you have a cheater detection system,. You have whatever, the emotion, all of those systems work in tantem to make you ta, to rely on. That's not madular. There is no information on capsullation.

David and Tamler talk about the often rancorous debate among cognitive scientists and evolutionary psychologists over whether the mind is modular -- composed of discrete systems responsible for vision, reasoning, cheater detection, sexual jealousy, and so on. David and Tamler (mostly David) describe the history of the debate, then dive into a recent paper (Pietraszewski & Wertz, 2021) arguing that virtually all the disagreement is the product of a conceptual and methodological confusion â€“ that the two sides are operating with different levels of analysis and talking past each other as a result.

Plus, we REALLY tried not to talk about the University of Austin thing for the whole opening segment. We had another topic lined up and everything. It just didnâ€™t work out. Cicero would understand. Bari Weiss stans might wanna skip to the main segment.