Redefining Reality - The Intellectual Implications of Modern Science

Humans are the result of an evolutionary process. If evolution favored
our big brains, is natural selection also responsible for aspects of its
functioning? As a species, we trace back to a band of individuals
who came out of Africa about 250,000 years ago, and we now see common
behaviors and desires across the globe. Because some of these would have
been advantageous to our ancestors, we might surmise that they are the result
of evolution working on our brains. But what, then, accounts for altruism?
How could being kind be advantageous to survival in a dangerous world?
Could it be that we evolved as a part of the world and, thus, are programmed
to care for it?
is that there are certain human behaviors, desires, and reactions
that are universal around the globe, regardless of culture. These
recurring regularities would be extremely unexpected if we thought
they developed accidentally from completely social contexts.
The second fact is that there are dedicated elements in the brain that
things; although these elements of the brain perform their tasks
at all. The standard example here involves what psychologists call
Wason cards.
In the late 1960s, the British psychologist Peter Cathcart
Wason developed a straightforward logic problem using cards
and found that less than one-quarter of his subjects were able to
solve it. It seems that we are not wired to be logical.
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