<a href=” http://pro.enetation.co.uk/comments.php?user=egelwan&commentid=106728380501077470

” title=””>Peggy La Cerra commented on my item on her ‘energetic evolutionary model’ of the mind:

Thanks for your comments. Maybe I can clarify your understanding of my paper’s content (I also wrote a book on these ideas, with Roger Bingham, called The Origin of Minds, Harmony 2002).

The challenge these ideas about the evolution of the human brain/mind poses to ‘Evolutionary Psychology’ is that they lead to a very different evolutionary model of our inherited neurocognitive architecture. Mine suggests that we inherit a complex set of adaptations that construct the neural information processing networks that give rise to the mind, theirs suggests that we inherit programs that solve specific problems (so-called ‘domain-specific/content dependent mechanisms’ as well as ‘a few or more ‘general processors’ and ‘some sort of integrative circuitry’. The ‘energetic model of the mind’ I propose is integrated and designed to assess the costs and benefits — TO AN INDIVIDUAL, based on his or her personal history of experience in the physical

and social environment over time — of one course of action versus another. There are many other implications of this model that differ greatly from those that fall out of the EP model that are expressed in detail in The Origin of Minds.

Best regards,

Peggy La Cerra