Evolutionary-psychology Quotes

Evolution has no moral direction. An evolutionary understanding of human nature can explain the diff...

[W]e can calculate our way into regions of miraculous improbability far greater than we can imagine ...

What we can imagine as plausible is a narrow band in the middle of a much broader spectrum of what i...

[O]ur percept is an elaborate computer model in the brain, constructed on the basis of information c...

[T]he form that an animal's subjective experience takes will be a property of the internal computer ...

Computation has finally demystified mentalistic terms. Beliefs are inscriptions in memory, desires a...

The typical imperative from biology is not "Thou shalt... ," but "If ... then ... else.

Thinking is computation, I claim, but that does not mean that the computer is a good metaphor for th...

Some people think that evolutionary psychology claims to have discovered that human nature is selfis...

Evolutionarily speaking, there is seldom any mystery in why we seek the goals we seek — why, for exa...

People who are depressed at the thought that all our motives are selfish are [confused]. They have m...

You are not alone in the struggles of life. Entire cosmos is with you. It evolves through the way yo...

Tis from the resemblance of the external actions of animals to those we ourselves perform, that we j...