Hello Diego! I've been wondering how the semester has been going for you. Are the trees at their most colorful now? I always miss the East during this time.
I'm reading a very delightful book called "The Mating Mind" by Geoffrey Miller. It's an argument, easy to make, that the human mind developed through Sexual Selection -- by people choosing mates who they found witty and intelligent over thousands of years. He's witty himself and quite funny. His metaphor for the mind is not a blank slate, a computer, or a hydraulic system under pressure (Freud), but an Entertainment System. Just like peacocks' tails have grown to be extravagant to advertise overall fitness even with a handicap, so our minds are given to extravagant fantasy and wasteful artistic activities to advertise to the opposite sex our fitness. It seems a sensible blending of psychology and biology.
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