Dennis Hackethal’s Blog
My blog about philosophy, coding, and anything else that interests me.
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Dennis Hackethal
Well, the evolutionary “purpose” of any biological adaptation, including the brain, is to spread its genes through the gene pool. See Dawkins’ “The Selfish Gene.”
In terms of what the brain does, it’s a computer.
In terms of what the mind does: it explains things.
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