Steve pinker makes the point that to reverse engineer the mind, we must take into consideration the evolutionary forces.
How does the mental world, the world of meaning, intention, concepts etc, fit into the material world described by physics? Are mental things fundamentally different to matter, is it another kind of stuff? Is it independent from matter somehow?
The idea behind computational theory of mind, that a mind , like a program , is independent of the implementation of machine that is executing it , wd say that mind is independent. It seems possible for me, as a mind to exist outside of my body , perhaps in a machine or computer :)
"entities like 'wanting to go to grandmas house' are colorless , odourless but at the same time are causes of physical events, as potent as any billiard ball clacking onto another"
Talks about that our brains use assumptions about the world to solve otherwise impossible problems, like determining a world of objects from a retinal image - we assume this world has even illumination. Common sense - a lot of the deductions we make, use assumptions about our world and human behaviour.
Says that natural selection works on the order of thousands of generations, that 99% of our time we lived as nomadic bands. We have minds adapted for the stone age - is that why we get so stressed?
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