Steven Pinker 1of3: The computational theory of mind

@PeeGeeBeeDee #2

To be clear on my last comment, I mean to say that there are other important factors which have influenced the way the brain is today. Of these we can count the hunger instinct, the innate like of sugars and fats, predator avoidance mechanism, etc.

Of course this does make invalid the fact that lust is an important factor, I simply wanted to put it into perspective.

Cheers.

Yeah, survival and reproduction created the human mind. I gave you that somewhere a few posts below. I was just making the point that lust (reproduction) rather than survival was an even more important factor in the shaping of the mind.

So, no, lust is still an important factor. In fact, many of the brains modules evolved due to lust (the language module being one).

@ PeeGeeBeeDee on the issue of lust shaping the evolution of the brain

I think you might be implicitly attaching a little too much importance to the adaptive importance of lust.

I'm not being implicit. I'm explicitly attaching a lot of importance to it. Without lust, morality wouln't have become adaptive, language wouldn't have become adaptive, love wouldn't have become adaptive, etc. I'm not looking at lust as being just one aspect of the brain, I'm looking at it as being the main driver of the brain, highly connected to the rest of these modules (adaptations).

I'm lying. I was using "love" in the marriage sense, above. Familial love isn't a product of lust, but of survival.

I'm not looking at your girl. NO, Natalie Thiem, I wasn't looking at you when you were dressed like Barney (the dress that didn't fit you right, with the fat, pasty legs) or in the Laker's Jersey with your small titties showing through. Tell The Wiffle and Whiteboy that I wasn't looking at you, PLEASE.)

Don't worry son, when you hit 50 you will find another use for your brain.

It's not just my brain, it's all ofour brains. And it's n ot just at this age, it's at every age of our lives. You're too unintelligent and uneducated to comprehend this. But keep reading my blogs and you might get an idea. And don't refer to me as son.

Because I'm a daughter. OKAY?

ugh.....please....go talk to wj freeman, pinker.