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#317 – John Vervaeke: Meaning Crisis, Atheism, Religion & the Search for Wisdom

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Natural Selection and cognition: pruning ideas between task/defaultMode network

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What we're talking about is how you are doing something very analogous to evolution. So if you think about that, adaptivity isn't in the organism or in the environment, but in a dynamical relation. And then what does evolution do? It creates variation, and then it puts selective pressure.

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