Reading this made me think of the vice versa corollary—people’s brains have also evolved to be more world-shaped. That’s one of the things evolution has been doing for billions of years, encoding the kinds of causal relations that exist in the world around us: from very rudimentary “light → food (so move towards light)” to creating complex narratives that explain and explore causality.
Reading this made me think of the vice versa corollary—people’s brains have also evolved to be more world-shaped. That’s one of the things evolution has been doing for billions of years, encoding the kinds of causal relations that exist in the world around us: from very rudimentary “light → food (so move towards light)” to creating complex narratives that explain and explore causality.