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It seems counterintuitive to believe that a thing you evolved not to do is a thing you can do. It'd be like training yourself to breathe underwater like a fish
by newsbinator 8y ago
It seems counterintuitive to believe that a thing you evolved not to do is a thing you can do.
It'd be like training yourself to breathe underwater like a fish.
Or training yourself to molt like a snake.
You're simply not designed with the right hardware for the task, not matter how much "practice" you get. Amazing how people can convince themselves otherwise.
- modzu 8y agoyou didn't evolve "to do" anything. that's teleology.
- newsbinator 8y agoI mentioned things we evolved not to do, which obviously wouldn't fly in a biology paper, but perhaps gets across "things we lack the evolution-provided hardware to do".