criticisms of an innately modular mind many of the criticisms of ep have to do with their belief that nature selected a mind characterized by innately pre specified domain specific information processing modules that were adapted to solve specific problems within our pleistocene past this section was intended to include criticisms of their 'massively' or even 'mostly massively' assumptions with regard to modularity however the 'rebuttals' seem aimed not toward defending their position but toward attacking an entirely domain general version of the mind firstly this kind of structure does not address the criticisms pertaining to the ep position and are thus not 'true' rebuttals to these criticisms secondly it creates a false dichotomy and strawman presentation of the critics suggesting that the only other 'alternative' to the ep definition of the mind is an entirely domain general one my suggestion is to either cut these kinds of rebuttals or to add a separate section beneath it titled criticisms of the domain general model of mind let us describe epers fighting their strawmen in a separate section