On 12 June 2014 04:16, spudboy100 via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> The dream thing is intriguing because I am sometimes fascinated by things > my visual cortex kicks out, often, before sleep comes. Ultra intricate and > non-retrievable patterns, images, songs that arise out of no where. Perhaps > neurobiology has a good explanation for all this, but its hard to see it as > a result of a beneficial characteristic of evolutionary advantage. > > It is more likely to be a "spandrel" as Stephen Jay Gould called it (if I remember correctly). This is something that just happens to drop out of the workings of other things that are selected for by evolution, but that have no selective advantage in themselves. (Either that or it's a cross between a spaniel and a mandrill) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
