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Of chimps and children

Many Minds

CHAPTER

The Middle Level of Action Is the Fundamental Level of Developmental Psychology

In most of your studies with kids, you're not actually getting them to like explain their behavior or give their reasons for things. You're sort of just getting them to do something. And I prefer that middle level because that's the level that evolution is working on. In evolution, it doesn't matter that you know the tiger's coming, you have to be able to get out of the way. Only thing that evolution cares about is your actions. Your cognition is that evolved to support your action.

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