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Consciousness is just the tip of the iceberg; most of what goes on in your mind is hidden from you. As a result, your conscious experience can mislead you into thinking that our circuitry is simpler that it really is. Most problems that you experience as easy to solve are very difficult to solve — they require very complicated neural circuitry.

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Different neural circuits are specialized for solving different adaptive problems.

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Our neural circuits were designed by natural selection to solve problems that our ancestors faced during our species' evolutionary history.

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Our modern skulls house a stone age mind. The key to understanding how the modern mind works is to realize that its circuits were not designed to solve the day-today problems of a modern American — they were designed to solve the day-today problems of our hunter-gatherer ancestors.

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The brain is a physical system. It functions as a computer. Its circuits are designed to generate behavior that is appropriate to your environmental circumstances.

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Leda Cosmides

Leda Cosmides

Born: May 9, 1957 (age 69)

Bio: Leda Cosmides is an American psychologist, who, together with anthropologist husband John Tooby, helped develop the field of evolutionary psychology.

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