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| Jul 31, 2013 at 13:33 | history | edited | Keegan Keplinger | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 31, 2013 at 13:29 | comment | added | Keegan Keplinger | I think that's a debate in itself, but since it's not a primary point, I will just remove it to avoid the distraction. | |
| Jul 31, 2013 at 13:24 | comment | added | Gala | I see your point but it is only tangentially related to the one I was trying to make, I still don't think any of this has much to do with evolutionary psychology. | |
| Jul 31, 2013 at 12:42 | comment | added | Keegan Keplinger | Also, I don't think insects "reason". They certainly process information... whether they're intelligent or not depends on how you define intelligence (different researchers will define it different ways, but there's a lot of room for anthropomorphizing there.) | |
| Jul 31, 2013 at 12:37 | comment | added | Keegan Keplinger | the question has been changed since I answered it, from human reasoning (a process with an associated verb: to reason) to human intelligence (a much broader concept). I don't equate "general information processing" to either human intelligence or human reasoning. Even inanimate objects can process information. | |
| Jul 31, 2013 at 5:23 | comment | added | Gala | Good point in the first paragraph but I don't think the evolution of intelligence has much to do with evolutionary psychology. One of its main assumption/tenet/characteristic is that specific behaviors or psychological traits evolved. That's the main point of contention and the level evolutionary psychologists discuss; they don't have much use or much to say about some general information processing capacity. Furthermore, evolutionary thinking about cognition is certainly not limited to evolutionary psychology, there is no reason to consider it “belongs” to its proponents in any way. | |
| Jul 31, 2013 at 0:24 | history | answered | Keegan Keplinger | CC BY-SA 3.0 |