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We Recognize Ourselves as Being Similar to Others: Implications of the 'Social Brain Hypothesis' for the Biological Evolution of the Intuition of Freedom

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العنوان: We Recognize Ourselves as Being Similar to Others: Implications of the 'Social Brain Hypothesis' for the Biological Evolution of the Intuition of Freedom
المؤلفون: Eckart Voland
المصدر: Evolutionary Psychology, Vol 5 (2007)
بيانات النشر: SAGE Publishing, 2007.
سنة النشر: 2007
المجموعة: LCC:Psychology
مصطلحات موضوعية: Psychology, BF1-990
الوصف: Consistent with and in extension of the “social brain hypothesis,” I discuss the idea that the intuition of free will emerged during the course of primate social evolution. If, as the “social brain hypothesis” alleges, the main selective pressure among primates is on generating social knowledge about one's cooperators and competitors, then it is the knowledge about others and not the knowledge about oneself that is the scarce cognitive resource. It is beneficial to make the others predictable and to form hypotheses about their probable behavioral tendencies. This is done by behavior reading and mind reading and by classifying the recurring stochastic patterns in everyday language as the “will.” Thus, the idea of free will emerged first as a social attribution and not as an introspectively gained insight. The fact that ego applies the idea of freedom also to itself and considers itself to be as free as it considers the social partners to be free, i.e. unpredictable, is in this view a non-selected by-product of social intelligence.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 1474-7049
14747049
Relation: https://doaj.org/toc/1474-7049
DOI: 10.1177/147470490700500301
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/0a177bf7ae8e4b219fb9021891601c10
رقم الانضمام: edsdoj.0a177bf7ae8e4b219fb9021891601c10
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
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تدمد:14747049
DOI:10.1177/147470490700500301