On 1/22/2015 4:27 AM, Jason Resch wrote:
False beliefs are detrimental to survival. E.g. if a society believed that winter would not come again, they might not store food away for those harder times. If another society didn't believe in GR, they wouldn't have been able to make GPS satellites and be able to efficiently navigate from point A to point B with satellite navigation. Again, all this gets back to the utility of brains. Why would it make sense to devote 25% of our metabolic energy to this "thinking thing" if it did not in some way make up for its cost via improved rates of survival?
Most thinking is not mathematical inference though, it's thinking about how to interact with other people, to gain their cooperation to manipulate them, to seduce them...all very useful to Darwinian evolution.
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