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Natural Evolution at the Level of the Individual Mind

2025-10-31

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Current research in cognitive science tends to describe cognition in terms of adaptation or optimization rather than genuine evolution. We advance the hypothesis that the laws governing biological evolution can be meaningfully transposed to the dynamics of thought within the mind of a healthy human individual. We argue that the main mechanisms of natural evolution can be mapped onto mental counterparts that can be...

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b767ed51-c595-5e85-8d9d-26c37f440592
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10.20944/preprints202510.2447.v1
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