> On 17 Jun 2018, at 16:27, Evgenii Rudnyi <[email protected]> wrote: > > > "In the past decades, recent paradigm shifts in ethology, psychology, and the > social sciences have given rise to various new disciplines like cognitive > ethology and evolutionary psychology. These disciplines use concepts and > theories of evolutionary biology to understand and explain the design, > function and origin of the brain. I shall argue that there are several good > reasons why this approach could also apply to human mathematical abilities. I > will review evidence from various disciplines (cognitive ethology, cognitive > psychology, cognitive archaeology and neuropsychology) that suggests that the > human capacity for mathematics is a category-specific domain of knowledge, > hard-wired in the brain, which can be explained as the result of natural > selection." > > Helen De Cruz. Towards a Darwinian approach to mathematics. Foundations of > science 11, no. 1-2 (2006): 157-196. > https://www.researchgate.net/publication/226764172_Towards_a_Darwinian_Approach_to_Mathematics
I will take a look (I have to go.). Looks interesting. Note that with mechanism, all of math and physics arises from arithmetic in a sort of Darwinian way. I doubt you could explain arithmetic itself “Darwinianly", as Darwin has to assume at least the very elementary arithmetic, and it can be proved not to be derivable by anything simpler. Bruno > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
