In the forties and fifties, there was this work on what people have caled a new look in perception. A psychologist named jerome bruner argued that your basic perceptions can change as a result of your beliefs and desires. And he did these these famous studies where he had rich kids and poor kids draw a quarter 25 cent american and a he found that poor kids drew them to be bigger than rich kids. So i want this to be true ritinin criticisms of the ma ar view. The knowledge from one madul can't reach the knowledge from the other. That's perception, your general beliefs, your thoughts, your desireste they cannot creep into the little
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 – 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 didn’t work out. Cicero would understand. Bari Weiss stans might wanna skip to the main segment.
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