Cognitive Thrift 46 – Cognition
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): Cognitive Thrift
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2017/11/22
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: We talked about evolution with regards to cognition. Let’s talk a bit more about it, we seem to be coming to a realization here.
Rick Rosner: Cognition is important for several reasons. one of the reasons is that the offspring takes a long time to be raised because once you get into big brained things. Well, we in particular have childhoods that last 10 or more years.
Partly because it takes a long time to teach humans everything that we know, and partly because we are only semi-formed because our brains are as big as they can be without killing the mother during childbirth. So, they have to develop outside the womb.
Brains are expensive. Let’s go back to general thinking about what’s expensive.
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