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Humans are more focused on social interaction and group cooperation than on pure truth-finding in their reasoning processes.
“we we truly reason, that is, we give reasons for things and and and we extract knowledge from knowledge we already have, which is what reasoning is, to get along and be social.”
The Rest Is Science · Apr 2026 · 1 episode · 1.1M views on this topic
Reasoning ability evolved primarily to facilitate social interaction and cooperation rather than for solving abstract truth-seeking problems.
“reasoning didn't evolve to help us solve mathematical puzzles. It originally evolved to help us work together and explain ourselves to each other because humans are just too weak.”
The Rest Is Science · Apr 2026 · 1 episode · 1.1M views on this topicPositions are extracted from transcripts by a model and may misattribute who said what. Every quote links to the episode it came from.
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