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> It seems like there's a reason evolution chose for ADHD to exist. Well, evolution is not an actor. It didn't 'choose' anything. It's just that people (organi
by niek_pas 1y ago
> It seems like there's a reason evolution chose for ADHD to exist.
Well, evolution is not an actor. It didn't 'choose' anything. It's just that people (organisms?) with ADHD have not failed to reproduce in the past, so it still exists.
- gyomu 1y ago> organisms with ADHD have not failed to reproduce in the past Yes, that's the real insight. You can be terribly unsuccessful by society's standards and yet immensely successful by evolutionary standards. If you're broke/in prison/homeless/addicted/(whatever else you want to include) with 6 kids, you're evolutionary more successful than someone who has it all put together with 0 kids.
- owenpalmer 1y agoThis is the bell curve meme. Evolution chose -> NOOOO, evolution doesn't "choose" anything -> Evolution chose Personification of natural selection is a common way biologists speak about evolution.
- marcosdumay 1y agoYes, we have an entire part of the language for talking about what actors do. And we have nothing at all to talk about how non-acting structures mold complex systems.