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[BONUS] Robert Kurzban On the Modular Mind

By David Sloan WilsonSeptember 2, 2020 No Comments

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In this bonus archive episode, David talks with evolutionary psychologist Robert Kurzban about his book, Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind which shows us that the key to understanding our behavioral inconsistencies lies in understanding the mind’s modular design. Modularity suggests that there is no “I.” Instead, each of us is a contentious “we”—a collection of discrete but interacting systems whose constant conflicts shape our interactions with one another and our experience of the world.

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Published On: September 2, 2020

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David Sloan Wilson

David Sloan Wilson is president of Prosocial World and SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biology and Anthropology at Binghamton University. He applies evolutionary theory to all aspects of humanity in addition to the rest of life, through Prosocial World and in his own research and writing. A complete archive of his work is available at www.David SloanWilson.world. His most recent books include his first novel, Atlas Hugged: The Autobiography of John Galt III, and a memoir, A Life Informed by Evolution.