Human origins papers are often informative and entertaining, as long as we do not confuse them with understanding the realities of human origins and experience.
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Should we ask first, what did humans have to say that the chimpanzees didn’t and don’t? And how did we come to have those things to say?
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The great triumph of the theory of evolution was to show that humans are just animals in nature—clever, yes, but clever animals. Or so we are told. But wait!
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Seeing the brain as a computer doesn’t tell us as much as we might think. When human beings build computers, we design them in a way that we can understand and use. So we think our brains must be like that too. Sure enough, in the vast complexity of our brains, we can surely find some elements that remind us of a computer. Others won’t.
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