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Is the Neocortex Getting Bigger?
Some scientists think that theory of mind, your ability to make inferences about the inner life of other creatures actually developed under the selection pressure predation because it makes you a better predator. Do you ever think of humans as just clever predators? Or are we now friendly? Yeah. I mean, there are, there are zeitgeists in how humans think about themselves, right? And so if you look in the 20th century, you can see that, um, the idea of an inner beast that we're just predators, we're just basically animals, baseless animals,. violent animals that have to be contained by culture and by our prodigious neocortex really took hold particularly after World War