Did evolution tune our minds for truth or survival? #evolution #ianmcewan #briangreene

Eio Wilson, the great American biologist, uh, once dreamed up a situation, a kind of thought experiment, um, in which the most intelligent creatures on Earth were termites and they've grown, um, massive 4 kilogram brains and the dean of termitities is giving a commencement address and he speaks of all the things that are completely obvious in the world uh in their knowledge — which is completely different I guess from us. — Well, I hope so. Um the joy of eating um from um uh the anuses of dead nestmates evil of individuality. I mean so it goes on. His point was given a completely different evolutionary past, you could still arrive at certain sort of totally self-evident truths um simply because you're a termite, not a am a