Bryan Johnson· Author
the analog is that I found all kinds of pseudo explanations for how or why other kinds of Divergent thinking came to survive until now with the idea that different kinds of minds or personalities exist because there was some evolutionary benefit somewhere along the way the attention deficit disordered brain is good for foraging in new places the novelty-seeking brain is good for tribal expansion the person with phobias of the unknown is good for taking care of the nesting at home the super autobiographical memory folk might know where the watering hole is the skitzophrenic or schizotypal brain is selected because of its utility as a shaman Mystic or leader etc etc the idea being that all the kinds of diversity or difference that we see is here in a sense because there's been a need for each in every type of brain in order to achieve robust adaptability of any group