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“You'd expect, as good Darwinian creatures, we would evolve to…” quote by Paul Bloom — Download Open image

“You'd expect, as good Darwinian creatures, we would evolve to be fascinated with how the world really is, and we would use language to convey real-world information, we'd be obsessed with knowing the way things are, and we would entirely reject stories that aren't true. They're useless. But that's not the way we work.”

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