I had an interesting conversation with a friend I met in Japan. She was Greek but born in America, currently living in Greece. She was describing the beautiful landscape of Greece, painting a picturesque paradise of the Greek islands and how their beaches are among the most beautiful in the world. With this breathtaking description,…
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Back in Grade 8, we had an assignment to recreate the trial of Louis Riel. I remember clearly that I wanted to be the judge because I thought I would be good at it thinking I was honest, logical and fair. But it turned out I was assigned as a lawyer instead. Now a lawyer…
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“The fundamental problem is that an evolved mind must pay attention to indirect cues of biological fitness, rather than tracking fitness itself. This was a key insight of evolutionary psychology in the early 1990s; although evolution favors brains that tend to maximize fitness (as measured by numbers of great-grandkids), no brain has capacity enough to…