Main points of Kluge
- Insight into Evolutionary History
- Improve ourselves by knowing ourselves ( our strength and weaknesses )
Chapters
- People
- William Shakespeare
- Richard Lederer
- Ed Smylie
- Jackson Granholm
- Aristotle, John Stuart Mill and Adam Smith (Rational Man)
- John Tooby & Leda Cosmides (Evolutionary psychology)
- Martin Daly & Margo Wilson (Infanticide)
- Martie Haselton & David Buss (Over interpret sexual intention)
- Richard Dawkins
- Herb Simon (Satisficing)
- Francois Jacob
- John Allman (Neuroscientist: Progressive overlay of Technologies)
- Jerome Groopman: How doctors think
- Barbara Touchman: The march of Folly
- Leslie Orgel: Mother Nature is smarter than you are.
- Dan Dennett: Philosopher
- Stephen Jay Gould: Imperfections( the useless, the odd, the peculiar & the incongruous )
- Peter Gollwitzer: Contingency Plans (If then Else )
- Timothy Wilson
- Remnants of History
- Memory
- Belief
- Choice
- Language
- Pleasure
- Things Fall Apart
- True Wisdom
- Whenever possible, consider alternative hypotheses.
- Refrane the question.
- always remember that correlation does not entail causation.
- Never forget the size of your sample.
- Anticipate your own impulsivity and pre-commit.
- Don’t just set goals. Make contingency plans.
- Whenever possible, don’t make important decisions when you are tired or have other things on your mind.
- Always benefits against costs.
- Imagine that your decisions may be spot-checked.
- Distance yourself.
- Beware the vivid, the personal and the anecdotal.
- Pick your spots.
- Try to be rational.
Main Point
- Emotional outburst
- Mediocre Memory
- Vulnerable to prejudice
- Nature: If something works, it spreads. Adequacy is the name of the game.
- Evolutionary Inertia
- Human Brain
- HindBrain (1/2 billion yrs old ): Respiration, Balance, Alertness
- Mid Brain : Auditory & visual reflexes
- Forebrain : Language and Decision making
- Relative Recent Evolution
- Bacteria : 3 Billion Years
- Mammals : 300 million years
- Human Beings : Couple of hundred thousand years
- Language, Complex Culture and Capacity for deliberate thought : 50,000 years
- Creatures who didn’t have language, didn’t have culture and didn’t reason deliberately. Originally adapted for very different purpose.
- Genome
Counter Point
- Optimization is inevitable outcome of Evolution.
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