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Seeing our bodies and minds through 'reverse engineering'


Deabte continues apace re' what our minds are;  they are likened to a computer; a library; a garden continually sprouting plants and in some cases weeds.

Reverse engineering is a process of figuring out the design of a mechanism on the basis of an analysis of the tasks it performs. Evolutionary functional analysis is a form of reverse engineering in that it attempts to reconstruct the mind's design from an analysis of the problems the mind must have evolved to solve.


Evolution is not finished it is ongoing, and the nature/nurture debate is also ongoing.

One consideration supports the conclusion that the underlying mechanisms we use to solve the relevant problems are innate (for evolutionary psychologists “innate” is usually interchangeable with “product of natural selection”[4]).

If we invoke this argument across the whole range of problem sets that humans face and solve, we arrive at a huge set of innate mechanisms that subserve our problem solving abilities, which is another way of saying that we have a massively modular (an umbrella containing term) mind.
 
 

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