PSY210H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Kludge, Mastication, Neocortex
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Meaning system is a collective historical product. e. g. language. (enculturation) Presume there is universal ability to move among cultures. Our biology prepares us for the ability. darwin"s framework. We are the product of non-teleological (working towards) process. it is non-optimal. it has a huge impact on our psychological development. Evolution by natural selection --> dynamical system (a self-organizing system). some say our brain operates as a dynamical system. Sees development emerges from a dynamical system. by looking at how evolution by natural selection, we can achieve the principle of an analogy of how we develop. Evolution work by exaptations, evolution will take some existing characteristics and modify it to adapt better to environment. Animals on the low end of the evolution ladder, mastication (moving tongue to eat), poi- son detection. human had the same functions but has work by exaptations, and evolve with adapting new functions, speech. We are also driven by intra-psychic conflict.
