Comment on Neuroscience basics for LessWrongians

Mon, 23 Jul 2012 21:37:52 GMT

Why should we? It's like postulating a human evolutionary use for acne - the zits don't have to be useful for us, they're already plenty useful for the bacterium that makes them happen.

Do you mean in the sense that we've adapted to having all this junk in our DNA, and would now get sick if it was all removed? That's possible (though onions seem to be fine with more/less of it).

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