The Muler Lyr Illusion Is Not Modular

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The idea of the maduler view of the mindth minus these mental modules that are domain specific, took fire. And a lot of people in cognitive psychology and in cognitive science sort of ran with this idea. But oka so bruner has all these studies arguing for this new look in perception. He thinks that desires and beliefs, what we would call higher level cognitive processes, or central processes, like your thinking,. Your beliefs, your desires, your wishes, they would influence something as basic as perception.

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.