On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 4:13 AM, Alberto G. Corona <[email protected]>wrote:
> > > . > > 2010/3/29 Jason Dusek <[email protected]> > > 2010/03/29 Alberto G. Corona <[email protected]>: >> > [...] What we evolved with is a general hability: to play with >> > things to achieve what we need from them, (besides other >> > abilities). The pleasure to acheve ends by using available >> > means. [...] A tool is someting used to solve a class of >> > problems. It does not matter if it is something phisical or >> > conceptual. [...] The more general is a tool, the more we feel >> > pleasure playing with it >> >> So the adaptation you are saying men have in greater degree >> than women is pleasure in "tool using", broadly defined to >> include taming animals, debate, programming, sword play, >> carpentry and more? What are you attributing to men is not >> so much superiority of ability but greater motivation? >> >> -- >> Jason Dusek >> > > n terms of natural selection, greater motivation for and greater innate > hability are both positiverly correlated in response to an evolutionary > pressure (in beings that have learning capabilities). for example, cats are > better at catching mouse, and they enjoy to play catching them. A live being > end up developping better innate habilities (and is more motivation) for > whatever practises more. This is called baldwin effect (some common general > learning for the task end up fixed innately). Motivation match ability and > viceversa. This is evolutionarily stable. > > It makes no evolutionary sense that woman and men have the same abilities > and tendencias because they had different activities since before they were > even humans. The brain has limited computation resources. The optimal > behaviours and strategies are in many cases different for each sex. This > happen for almost all the animal kingdom. Why humans would be different?. > No matter they are very similar in some aspects, they are different and > very different in others (fortunatelly). Nothing that your grandparent > didn´t know. > > What does any of this have to do with Haskell? Please move this off list. > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > >
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