I suppose this is where environmental contingencies come into play; the evolution of the eye for example - a common example of convergent evolution - ...
Another way to think about this, if you're interested, is in terms of the topological properties that characterize such a landscape. Two parameters in...
I mean differentiated rather in the sense of symmetry groups, where groups are defined (read: differentiated) by their invariance under rotation. If o...
I refer you to the given reasons as to why the initial post was deleted. The first reason alone, by the way, qualified it for deletion as far as I was...
Ha, this is a wonderfully provocative way of putting it, but I think it's pushing the semantic boundaries a bit to say that all species are ultimately...
Look into genotype networks! This is exactly the challenge it aims to ameliorate: http://www.molecularecologist.com/2015/02/bigger-on-the-inside/ A te...
The PM you're referring to - about insults - was sent four days ago regarding your interactions with other posters in other threads, and has nothing t...
Dude, the entire OP was a discussion of intentionality with respect to an imagined court case. The very words 'evolution' and 'universe' quite literal...
Nothing of what I have written or cited has anything to do with psychology. The field drawn upon is dynamic systems theory, which is indeed worth a lo...
Nope, false again: "But to repeat, the environment does not function as a trigger the way behaviorism would have it. The agent's own dynamics, albeit ...
No. Sticking with Jurerro as our exemplar, she is explicit about this: any intention is ultimately governed by a control loop that runs circuitously f...
Perhaps you should consult the scientific literature before putting words in it's proverbial mouth. There are most certainly scientific approaches to ...
I'm not sure what you mean by 'didn't really fit' - fit what? For what purpose? Just remember that 'survival of the of the fittest' is just a phrase u...
The term is relational of course - what is adequate depends on the environment in which a species finds itself. The idea is that evolution has conting...
Again, it's not survival of the fittest but survival of the adequate. And as for other factors, again, to list: sexual selection, niche construction, ...
And of course we don't need 'mind' and 'life' to work against entropy because entropy already works against itself (in the form of mind and life, amon...
The trick is to think in terms of genotype and phenotype instead of simply alleles, because what matters is not just any variation, but heritable vari...
A preliminary point: despite the popularity of the phrase, natural selection does not select for 'the fittest', but for the 'fit enough'. That is, evo...
Peter Brain and Ian Manning - Credit Code Red: How Financial Deregulation and World Instability are Exposing Australia to Economic Catastrophe Some li...
I guess any situation in which all environmental variables are kept stable - ceteris paribus conditions. Such conditions by definition force unitary e...
I think part of the problem is that neither phenomena nor the explanations that account for them are unitary things: different aspects of any one phen...
Yeah, this is unfortunately true. I'd suggest that a large part of the problem is social and political rather than merely intellectual however: the hu...
True, but if anything I think the trick is to simply ignore them when possible, and focus on the much more fulfilling and positive work of looking for...
I don't see the necessity of pitching philosphy and science in an antagonistic relationship, and if anything the strange animus towards science in the...
Imma say tie between crop rotation and sanitation systems, with penicillin just after. Although the fridge and the printing press are also my favourit...
Melinda Cooper - Life as Surplus: Biotechnology and Capitalism in the Neoliberal Era Nikolas Rose - The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power, a...
I suppose resignation itself doesn't necessarily have to have a negative hue, to the extent that one can resign oneself to play by the rules, and be a...
Yeah, this. 'It is what it is' is usually a statement of resignation, or inability to affect a change -powerlessness, as you put it. It tends to stand...
I nominated the thread for deletion on the grounds that (1) it cited no sources, (2) it did not acknowledge the contentiousness of regarding IQ as a p...
The trick with studying philosophy is that you actually have to practice it in some way - that is, write out or even just hash out arguments in a way ...
Another way to think about 'construction' - to crib a wonderful formulation from Stanley Cavell - is that it bears not upon a thing's being so, but up...
I'd want to argue that if you're having to try and prevent a totalitarian leader form being elected, then your democracy has already failed, or has be...
Walter Kaufman's Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist is the usual go-to study, though it's a little dated now. As is Alexander Nehamas's ...
I don't see any reason not to talk about Kevin, provided it's a discussion with a minimum of substance - i.e. no boorish name calling and insult throw...
Even if it is granted that there are average differences of testosterone levels between the sexes, this too needs to be complicated by the fact that t...
The van Anders study cited in the psychology today blog - if you bothered to read it - is all about how behaviour regulates testosterone. This is how ...
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