Posted: Jun 13, 2014 8:36 am
TMB wrote:Thommo wrote:I wholly disagree, it is myopic to believe that evolution explaining the diversity of extant life is the same as evolution explaining all behaviour. Evolution inherently involves random variables (and a lot of them) and those random variables denote things for which there is not a full explanation. Misunderstanding the scope of what is explained by TOE is quite obviously going to lead to a lot of very silly conclusions. In short my preference for The Offspring to Nirvana is predicated upon evolution, it is not explained by it.
If I understand you correctly, you are drawing the distinction between adaptive behaviour, where a specific behaviour confers a utility and spandrels where the behaviour is an incidental byproduct of the process?
No, I'm talking about the vast majority of human behaviour which is learned, not evolved.