Naslov
Common Sense in Evolutionary Perspective

Autori
Janović, Tomislav

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
13th Congress of the European Anthropological Association-Abstracts, Collegium Antropologicum / Maver, Hubert ; Rudan, Pavao - Zagreb : Hrvatsko antropološko društvo, 2002, 94-95

Skup
13th Congress of the European Anthropological Association

Mjesto i datum
Zagreb, Hrvatska, 30.08.2002. - 03.09.2002

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Poster

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
common sense; evolution; evolutionary psychology; Darwinian algorithms; cognitive specialisations; general intelligence

Sažetak
In respect to the topic of Common Sense, two important insights deserve attention: (1) contrary to the "Standard Social Science Model" (Cosmides-Tooby), there exists something as a universal, panhuman cultural substrate ("meta-culture") that is invariant in respect to time, space or social contingencies ; (2) contrary to the long held orthodoxy about the human mind as a "general purpose machinery", this universal cultural substrate is the result of many functionally specialized, content-dependent, context sensitive and domain-specific mechanisms ("modules") which evolved as adaptations to ancestral environments. While the first hypothesis is relatively unproblematic, the second deserves special attention. In particular, there seems to be a problem about the coordination and integration of the diverse common sense generating mechanisms. Short of a solution to this problem, the scientist of mind faces difficulties in integrating the two hypotheses in a unique theory.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Sociologija, Etnologija i antropologija

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