It seems to me the idea that essentialism evolved for dealing with creatures is a bit too narrow; certainly we don’t use it just with creatures, and to the extent it works it does work more broadly than that. I would expect it would more have to do with general factors like speed and scalability (as Eliezer points out in Neural Categories).
It seems to me the idea that essentialism evolved for dealing with creatures is a bit too narrow; certainly we don’t use it just with creatures, and to the extent it works it does work more broadly than that. I would expect it would more have to do with general factors like speed and scalability (as Eliezer points out in Neural Categories).