History, Not Evolution, Is the Key Variable for Understanding Consciousness

History, Not Evolution, Is the Key Variable for Understanding Consciousness: The Temporal Extension Thesis and the Adaptive Psyche
By Brian J. McVeigh
Read by Michael R. Jacobs (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.theungoogl...⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ / voiddenizen⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ .
The human mind is always adjusting, accommodating, and adopting resources from outside itself to expand and improve its capabilities. Such adaptation, if broadly understood, unfolds across different temporal spans. But a glaring weakness of mainstream research psychology is its almost complete neglect of a time-scale that would illuminate how the human mind changes over a few generations or several centuries.
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