Evolutionary psychologists have a hard time refuting the other theories of how the mind works because what they believe in is largely theory. The alternatives still hold strength, only that what has been found so far has been theory. Like many other great discoveries in history, this one may take time to catch on. Copernicus and Galileo we thought to be fools because they believed the sun was the center of the solar system. Once human beings fully understand our evolutionary process and ourselves, we will then know we are moral animals.
Feelings are the basic recognition of our morality.
This is why Johnston believes our passions and illusions are the future of our minds and nature as we know it. To know these things is to know ourselves and the process in which we came about. One point that we found especially interesting was when Johnston discusses the fact that humans do not know why they have feelings. He explains that we can only give a proximate cause as to why we cried or laughed about something that happened to us, therefore making each of us semiconscious beings. We are semiconscious beings because we do not need to know how or why these feelings came about in order to act upon them.