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#129 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Counterintuitive Ideas About How the Brain Works

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What Darwin Darwin Really Talked About Variation

Darwin really talked about variation in um so if you read for example the biologist Ernst mare who was an evolutionary biologist and then when he retired became a historian and philosopher of biology. He vanquished what's called essentialism the idea that there's a single set of features that define any species. Out of that grew discussions of the function  and we all impose on whatever it is salt barley little shells big rocks in the ocean that can't move bitcoin pieces of plastic mortgages which are basically a promise of something in the future nothing more.

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