Hello Mr. and Mrs. Adaptation Executor..........................................................49
If it feels good, do it, right?! ..............................................................................51
The Elephant and the Rider................................................................................53
Sexual Selection on a Full Planet... ....................................................................55
Social Status: Keeping up with the Joneses ......................................................57
You (almost) Win!! It’s the Unexpected Reward, Stupid! ................................59
Supernormal Stimuli...........................................................................................62
Addiction/Habituation .......................................................................................64
The Hedonic Ratchet ..........................................................................................65
Evolved to be Wrong:.........................................................................................68
Bias and Delusion as Adaptive Traits ................................................................68
Modular Minds – a Mixed Blessing...................................................................71
The “Interpreter” Module - Introduction ..........................................................73
Retroactive Confabulation .................................................................................75
Belief in Belief .....................................................................................................77
Cognitive Biases: a Potpourri of Biases.............................................................80
Loss Aversion.......................................................................................................82
Cognitive Dissonance .........................................................................................84
Optimism Bias.....................................................................................................86
Confirmation Bias ...............................................................................................88
Consensus Trance...............................................................................................91
Authority Bias .....................................................................................................93
Cognitive Load ....................................................................................................95
Time Blindness ....................................................................................................96
Shifting Baselines................................................................................................99
Moral Biases .....................................................................................................101
Bias X + Bias Y + Global context = Emergent Biases.......................................103
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