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To: Greg or e who wrote (27757)	6/29/2012 4:57:49 AM
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So you're not going to defend your blatant error of equating invisible with immaterial? I didn't think so. Thats a rather self destructive statement , why should i have to defend something so obviousy true not only on one level but many other levels as well but seems to fly right over your head ?

To: Greg or e who wrote (27757)	6/29/2012 5:01:25 AM
From: 2MAR$	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

You choose to ignore 98% of what is posted here , then go on to act as if some meaningful exchange has taken place , well we know you are not interested or here for that . Your ignoring this post just minutes ago does not make the idea of it go away , that man evolved conceptual thought & ability for abstraction as a special circumstance/outcome of his own unique evolutionary niche . (involving cognizance & pattern recognition ) Message 28235712 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.