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Unique to humans? We'd have to be open to mental diversify among much simpler minds and create some typical structure for, say, the feline mind, in order to demonstrate deviations. And I can't imagine how we'd begin to test that. |
Saying that evolution is "what works" is sloppy language, evolution has a definition and that's what evolution is.
"Evolution is the change in the inherited characteristics of biological populations over successive generations." for example. |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptation
and it ought to be fairly easy to test whether or not a dog (for example) experiences emotional contagion i don't know about cats though. cats are assholes |
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You lived? You mated? Good enough. |
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No clue why you'd think every single human characteristic has some net benefit to the human. Perhaps sociopaths are mutants who pose no benefit to the species but they function well enough and get laid and that keeps it going. |
i don't think that
you're talking rubbish. benefit to the human. benefit to the species. incoherent |
So why are you searching to justify the mind of a sociopath?
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I just quoted it you idiot.
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He's implying it's an adaptation. It might not be. What. Is. So. Hard.
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He hasn't anywhere, as far as i can tell, said that evolution automatically means an improvement, i think that's the relevant thing to quote if you can find it. Also evolution still isn't "what works", that's not a simplification, it's just wrong my friendly friend. |
Implying it is an adaptation does though, and that is exactly what he did. I'm saying I don't think it's an adaptation because it might not contribute to fitness or survival. It could very well be a thing that stuck, because evolution isn't reaching for some higher goal or improved state... again, it's just meeting the minimum requirements for survival and reproduction.
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Stupid.
No his focus is on whether or not it's unique to humans. He's already made it an evolutionary adaptation. He wonders if it is unique to humans, not if it is an adaptation. Not hard here. I'm saying it might not even be an adaptation. I feel bad arguing semantics with you about English, but the case is he basically determined it was an adaptation in his question. He did not say "I'm wondering if psychopathy might be an evolutionary adaptation and if it is unique to humans." |
And he'd be here to defend himself... which he has chosen not to do... because he knows he fucked up.
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His question was about the uniqueness, not whether or not it's an adaptation. He already figured it was. Just get out of here koontzy.
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i said "adaptation" because, well, sociopaths are widespread, and only a small proportion are criminal. but it might not be an adaptation at all – it might just be the side effect of a certain kind of brain damage, for example. you may have missed it in your rush to spluttering nerd histrionics but i did start out by saying "i'm wondering if" |
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when did you turn into eulogy? |
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Now I'm supposed to believe you live in some sort of... Different time zone?
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our cat elsa might be a sociopath.
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really? |
QED your stupid
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