My Chat with Cognitive Scientist Dr. Hugo Mercier - On Human Reasoning (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_519)
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The Evolution of Reasoning
I think that the regrettable part is that there is a set of cognitive and emotional obstacles that will always be there irrespective of how much progress there is. But I do think at a field level, at the epistemological level, I'd like to think that there is less resistance. So if I try to situate the French ecosystem in terms of their acceptance or antipathy towards evolutionary psychology, where would they fit on that arc? How to say compared to England? Well, you know, so traditionally, England has always been in a hot bit of adaptationism. In France, unfortunately, evolution by natural selection, since it was,you know, it was the Brits that I
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