Tuesday, February 19, 2013

The cognition of a single ant

The solitary human being may be the wrong unit of analysis. Cooperation is so fundamental to our survival strategies that as a species under analysis, the individual may not be the sensible subject of study. We evolved to succeed together, and our strengths and weaknesses may be incomprehensible when looked at one person at a time.

http://philosophybites.com/2011/09/dan-sperber-on-the-enigma-of-reason.html

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