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#1 – Brett Hall: Knowledge, Evolutionary Psychology and Free Will

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We Don't Yet Know How This Creativity Thing Came About

We don't yet know the process that led to this mechanism through which humans, through which people create knowledge. The Taj Mahal and Buckingham Palace are not in the DNA of any human who has ever lived. Instead, they've come from the minds, which is a completely different thing. And so if it's happened to us, this amazing survival thing, could it happen elsewhere? Well, the weird thing is, it only seems to have happened,. to one of our ancestors, and we evolved from that ancestor. If it's so useful, then we would expect it to arise all the time. But we don't know yet.

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