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Politics : Evolution
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To: Greg or e who wrote (27745)6/29/2012 3:40:36 AM
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All these immaterial concepts are compositions built upon the constructions that originally go back to earlier analysis of percieved forms & observations made of the proportional relationships within & between these forms . Some have likened mathematical formulas to building a cathedral in the brain/mind but always is built upon earlier intelligent & rational observations built up gradually & logically , our intelligence that evolved to do this itself is an adaptation of our evolutionary niche .

In his PNAS paper Pinker outlines two processes at work:

"One is that intelligence is an adaptation to a knowledge-using, socially interdependent lifestyle, the 'cognitive niche.'" And: "The second hypothesis is that humans possess an ability of metaphorical abstraction, which allows them to coopt faculties that originally evolved for physical problem-solving and social coordination, apply them to abstract subject matter, and combine them productively."

Together, Pinker concludes:

"These abilities can help explain the emergence of abstract cognition without supernatural or exotic evolutionary forces and are in principle testable by analyses of statistical signs of selection in the human genome." Pinker then outlines a number of ways in which the cognitive niche hypothesis has been and can continue to be tested.

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