The Robot's Rebellion Summary

Keith Stanovich, author of The Robot’s Rebellion: Finding Meaning in the Age of Darwin expands on the concept of Darwinian ‘modules’ where it’s built into the human genes to make the gene last and survive instead of benefit an individual or an individuals groups. Stanovich claims that an evolution has been hardwired into our brains which he calls the TASS, The Autonomous Set of Systems, which is set of fast, consistent and mandatory behavior-triggering psychological mechanisms. These are the things that make us ‘Robots’ as they are preset and hardwired into our brains by our genes to do whatever is best for the gene to survive.
Stanovich shows and explains that within all species in the animal kingdom, TASS have been installed by their self interested genes whose role and motivation is strictly for the species to replicate successfully. Stanovich’s stance on this is that the TASS is a system which only cares about replication with other of

It is basically the automatization of genetic and learned intuitions of the host throughout their life encoded by the genes of their ancestors. The TASS can also be seen as an automatization, since as we perceive and decide more on external environment problems it can help us decide on similar problems faster, easier and think about other things while we decide which is ultimately automatization since we aren’t less conscious of the TASS itself in ourselves. An example of collaboration between consciousness, unconsciousness, and TASS are our preferences for sweet and fatty foods which is an evolutionary mechanisms from our ancestors to get a high amount of energy intake in an environment that is less advantageous that our current environment. The TASS has an impact on our conscious of certain things in species to increase their chance of procreation and replication, either by genetically encoding into the species wanting desired traits by the opposite sex of the