I’m not seeing the contradiction in the Murphy argument. Determinism would say that jet airplanes were “baked in” but they still required the preceding causes, one being a large brain that behaves the way it does.
@HamanNature
3 ай бұрын
Well sure, but the "behaving the way it does" is supposed to be choosing whether to make those planes out of metal or gelatin, right? I guess I could construct a story where there's no contradiction, but it sure seems like there is one. I mean, if our big brains aren't choosing to turn left or turn right or decide to invent antibiotics, what the heck are they doing that's so evolutionary adaptive?
@snex000
3 ай бұрын
@@HamanNature They are “choosing” it but only in the same sense that a river “chooses” to meander left instead of right. Lots of brains are making bad choices. We don’t hear about them too much in history books for obvious reasons.
@HamanNature
3 ай бұрын
@@snex000 It would be hilarious if evolutionary biologists started using this framing when talking about humans and our big brains.
@ExistenceUniversity
3 ай бұрын
@@snex000ONLY if you don't focus!! You can Choose to let your brain act like a river moving down hill, or you can focus and move your mind river up hill!
@snex000
3 ай бұрын
@@ExistenceUniversity Supremely irrelevant and unhelpful comment.
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