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Unsupported assertions seem inaccurate or misleading

In the following paragraph taken from the Scope>Principles section of this article:

"Evolutionary psychology adopts an understanding of the mind that is based on the computational theory of mind. It describes mental processes as computational operations, so that, for example, a fear response is described as arising from a neurological computation that inputs the perceptional data, e.g. a visual image of a spider, and outputs the appropriate reaction, e.g. fear of possibly dangerous animals. Under this view, any domain-general learning is impossible because of the combinatorial explosion."

Seems to make a number of what seem clearly overstated or dubious claims about Evolutionary Psychology:

1) That EP believes all behavior is based in a computational theory of mind.

2) That computational procedures are deterministic

3) That domain-general learning is incompatible with EP

My (lay-informed) understanding of EP is that while some researchers with extreme views might believe some of this, it is by no means a widespread view in the field. In particular, the idea that domain-general learning is incompatible with EP seems preposterous. The fact that these statements are all uncited with evidence makes me want to strike the entire set of sentences from the article. Thoughts? Advice? Stevemidgley (talk) 19:15, 19 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Correction

Sorry, I meant to say "administrators". I don't believe you have moderators here. 1Rastabrain (talk) 23:11, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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