Philosophical Journey – Discovering the Mystery of Creation in the Mind – a memoir; #6: Schizophrenia, Group Beliefs, and the Chasm of Politics

January 24, 2013

Filed under: Belief, Group Selection, Summary of Philosophy

Schizophrenia is the most mysterious major illness in all of medicine, made all the more fascinating to me because my own family’s secret was an afflicted aunt who had been banished to a sanatorium for her entire life. In a small room in the mortuary, I spend a half hour with her corpse meditating upon …

Richard Dawkins, Group Selection, and “Relational Genes” – excerpt from the book.

July 15, 2012

Filed under: Evolutionary psychology, Group Selection, Sexual Selection

Without realizing it, 30 years ago, I was beginning to conceive of a novel form of group selection. It was only much later that I learned that the idea of group selection was essentially serving time in the academic penitentiary mostly because of its association with Nazism. This drama went completely over my head …