Rachell Powell

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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas · 342 | Rachell Powell on Evolutionary Convergence, Morality, and Mind · 26 Jan 2026 podcast

Now, if you go back to the mind question, just to sort of be on your side a little bit.

But the reasons, exactly.

So that's why, like everything, and this is something that sort of falls out of modern contemporary philosophy of science, it's all question relative.

The explanations are question relative, right?

And so that's why you end up getting so much crosstalk, because if you're trying to explain Neanderthal behavior, right,

Well, you know, then a complete picture is going to involve things like maybe, right?

I mean, even that's contested.

But it's like a complete picture would involve those kinds of proximate mechanisms.

But if you're trying to sort of understand what the trait actually is, why it arises in evolution, what's going on, that requires a bigger, more convergentist-like approach, perspective.

And I think it sheds light on deeply, like on...

human you know the metaphysics of human institutions like i've i've run the same kind of argument about the uh you know the nature of social norms and what the structure of normative societies are and um you know and i think the same kinds of lessons um apply there but but going back to the oh should we go back to the mind thing that you were talking about yes

Yeah, I mean, so I think like, and this is interesting.

So I think that the, I think that there's overwhelmed, well, I don't know.

I don't want to, it's hard to characterize things, but there's very, there's strong evidence, right?

That brains and active bodies and minds evolved multiple times independently early in animal evolution.

First in the arthropods.

Mm-hmm.

devastating seek and destroy predators going on in the Cambrian before vertebrates even got going, before vertebrates probably even had heads.

And that triggered all sorts of arms races.

And then you got a couple of other lineages that also developed

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