My comment must necessary be something of an aside since I don’t know the Hamming problem. However, your statement “We are not designed to be rational” jumped out for me.
Is that to say something along the lines of rationality is not one of the characteristics that provided an evolutionary advantage for us ? Or would it mean rationality was a mutation of some “design” (and possibly one that was a good survival trait)?
Or is the correct understanding there something entirely different?
My comment must necessary be something of an aside since I don’t know the Hamming problem. However, your statement “We are not designed to be rational” jumped out for me.
Is that to say something along the lines of rationality is not one of the characteristics that provided an evolutionary advantage for us ? Or would it mean rationality was a mutation of some “design” (and possibly one that was a good survival trait)?
Or is the correct understanding there something entirely different?
Hamming Question: “What is the most important problem in your field?”
Hamming Problem: The answer to that question.
Rationality did not boost inclusive fitness in the environment of evolutionary adaptedness and still doesn’t.