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Josh Fisher's avatar

Love it. I wrote about Laland's Social Strategies Tournament here: https://www.textsavvy.org/blog/makin-copies.

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Jessica Kulynych's avatar

Wonder what you think of the evolutionary psychology argument of Taylor and Vestergaard (https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.889245/full) arguing that the persistence of dyslexia in humans may be "search specialization" equating with what you call asocial learning perhaps. Whereas most humans are evolved for exploitation of existing skills and knowledge, the stubborn persistence of neurodivergent brains is a human adaptation that preserves the divergent learning/thinking required to get us new thinking when we need it. So when dyslexics say that schools are not built for them, that might be literally true as they are places of social learning vs places for search.

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