个人身份认同演化驱动与适应性变迁.pdfVIP

WhatisalIdentity?

▪Intuitivelyappealingviews

▪Persistence,continuityofmemory,whatitis

liketobeyouovertime

1.Immaterialsouls,pureegos(religion)

2.Psychologicalcontinuity(Locke)

▪Overlappingchainsofdirectpsychological

connectionsweenbeliefs,desires,

intentions,experientialmemories,character

traits,andactions

3.Ourbodies

▪Brutephysicalrelationwiththeenvironment

1

Hypothesis

▪Iftheevolutionarybiologicaldriversthatcausedal

identitytodevelopasafitnessadaptationwereto

change,theneedforalidentitytoowouldchange

andperhapsdipear

▪Mainevolutionarybiologicalandculturaldrivers:

▪Resourceacquisition,statusgarnering,mateselection,

groupacceptance,genderro(Hrdy)

▪Absentthesedrivers,howwouldtheadaptationbenefit

conferredbyalidentitychange?

▪Exampofshiftsinsocialgoalsandes

▪Worldwidebirthratedeclines

▪Belowrecementpopulationdeclines(Japan,Italy)

2

alIdentity:MultidisciplinaryQuestion

PhilosophyofMindPsychology

PhilosophyofBiology

SocialTheory

Sociology

Sociobiology

Biology

EvolutionaryBiology

TheoreticalBiology

EvolutionaryPsychology

3

PhilosophicalViewsof