Appendix

Appendix

1 Heredity and environment
2 The genesis of mental realms
3 Gestures and trajectories
4 Brain connections
5 Survival instinct
6 Evolution and intend
7 Insulation and interaction
8 Evolution of human thought

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1 Heredity and environment, p 309
Often we try to classify our differences into those with which
we're born and those we later learn [...] Most arguments about
"nature vs. nurture" are based on two mistakes. One is to talk
about intelligence as though a person's quality of mind were
like a quantity one could pour into a cup. The other mistake is
to assume that there is a clear distinction between *what* we
learn and *how* we learn.

2 The genesis of mental realms, p 312
In their first few days, human infants learn to distinguish
people by their odors; then, over the next few weeks, they learn
to recognize individuals by sound of voice; only after several
months do they start to reliably distinguish the sights of
faces. Most likely we learn to make each of these distinctions
by several different methods, and it is probably no accident
that these abilities develop in a sequence that corresponds to
their increasing complexity.

5 Survival instinct, p 317
Many people [...] think that evolution favors life -although it
is a painful fact that most mutated animals must die before
reproduce. But hindsight makes us tend to count only the
survivors we see, while overlooking all the misfits that have
disappeared; it is the same mistake that one might make from
looking only at the sky -to then conclude that all the animals
were birds.