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One theory is that the brain has evolved specific "modules" that are specialized to certain tasks (i.e. detecting cheaters in social scenarios) and we perform m
by ForHackernews 8y ago
One theory is that the brain has evolved specific "modules" that are specialized to certain tasks (i.e. detecting cheaters in social scenarios) and we perform much better when we can rely on these brain-ASICs than when we have to use our general-purpose higher reasoning faculties.
As far as I know, there's no conclusive evidence for reasoning modules, but there do seem to be analogous modules in our visual processing system.
- colordrops 8y agoI thought it was pretty well established that humans are wired to recognize faces. I don't have a reference though.
- ForHackernews 8y agoYeah, I think facial recognition, edge-detection, motion tracking, etc. are examples of fairly well-established "modules" of human vision. Unless there's been new research I haven't heard about, it's still an open question of whether there's similar biological specialization for, say, specific logic problems.