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Re:Impact of breast milk on IQ, brain size and white matter ... by rimliu on Thursday August 31, 2017 @03:27AM (#15138737)
I always consider intellect to be a part of the nature. It is a nature's way to reason about itself after all.
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Re:Impact of breast milk on IQ, brain size and white matter ... by coldtea on Thursday August 31, 2017 @05:00AM (#15139085)
In an abstract way yes.

But in another sense, intellect vs nature is a useful distinction to make.

(E.g. blind forces of evolution through selection/mutation/etc, vs conscious targeted changes).

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Re:Impact of breast milk on IQ, brain size and white matter ... by roceasta on Thursday August 31, 2017 @05:33AM (#15139175)
The work of Karl Popper suggests than human knowledge also progresses in an evolutionary manner, by conjecture and refutation. So something resembling natural selection must be going on in our brains.

http://www.the-rathouse.com/CRContents.html

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Re:Impact of breast milk on IQ, brain size and white matter ... by coldtea on Thursday August 31, 2017 @08:46AM (#15139869)
>The work of Karl Popper suggests than human knowledge also progresses in an evolutionary manner, by conjecture and refutation.

Human knowledge in general might, but I'm talking about how humans take action and shape the world around them vs how evolution does.

Conjecture and refutation are not like random mutations -- that's just the "survival of the fittest" part of evolution, which is not the actual mechanism and which applies to everything (after all, anything that survives is fitter that what didn't).

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