L64 PNP 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Melon, Strategic Dominance, Research Question
8 Mar 2018
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Gives a picture of the overall organization of the mind. Mind composed of highly specialized cognitive modules ("darwinian modules") Believe each evolved to solve a particular adaptive problem. Each module exploits specialized rules that are domain-specific. No domain-general "central cognition" or abstract reasoning mechanism. Cosmides/tooby experiments seem to show specialized skills for cheater detection. Not simply specialized skills for conditional reasoning involving social exchang. These experimental results are integrated with the massive modularity hypothesis explanation of why there needs to be a cheater detection module. Evolutionary explanation itself grounded in an account of the evolution of altr. Cooperative behavior is widespread in the animal kingdom. Even in the lower animals (ants, termites, bees, etc. ) But how did the genes coding for cooperative behavior ever get established in the g. The prisoners dilemma is a very useful tool for modeling the problem example of a game theory. We can assume that the participants are purely selfish.
