How are you defining animal? We have Shakespeare, Einstein, Bach, Language, Mathematics, Science, Internet,Psychotherapy, Computer Programming, School...
Sorry. Can you link me to these posts or quote them as I can't seem to find them. I am using homosexuality as a case where people are trying to subsum...
I think there is a clear difference between mechanism and sensation. It is possible to build unconscious sensors that avoid fire. You only need to mak...
It is a video not a photo. It is worth a look. Science is not just about facts but it can impose and support pernicious brutal theories about human st...
This video is worth a look. It documents the effects of scientific racism and the use of Social Darwinism to justify inaction during Indian Famines du...
Free will arguments are philosophical anyway and not scientific. I think science could only validly deny freewill when all behaviour and mental states...
That I not an explanation causal or otherwise. It would be great if natural selection had given me wings so I could fly to the shops. You make it soun...
Robert Sapolsky was cited earlier in the thread. "Most recently, Sapolsky has been reflecting on the origins of human behavior, starting deep in the b...
Filtering out a negative mutation is not the same as causing a property to exist like the posited emergent property of consciousness. Consciousness ha...
Evolutionary psychology modular theory of mind is very biased, where it likes to put basic traits in service of reproduction hence their puzzlement ov...
This is very controversial you are ignoring large explanatory gaps. I don't see how selction pressures cause anything? Causes and dispositions we know...
I though I said this earlier. Determinism is a popular position in academia where the mind is seen as almost irrelevant and consciousness epiphenomena...
Heterosexuality is required but what it requires is much more complex than homosexual desire. Homosexuals just need to fancy each other. Heterosexuali...
There is huge literature in psychology and philosophy of mind and neuroscience etc. Posting links to one thinker Stepehen Pinker as authoritative (Or ...
Consciousness is experience and awareness of surroundings. There is no explanation as to why we have experiences ( including dreams, pain and other se...
Harry H.You are conflating the benefits of a feature with a causal explanation. Saying wings aid survival through flight is for example an explanation...
This is another abuse of "hierarchies" "1920s, Belgian ethnologists analysed (measured skulls, etc.) thousands of Rwandans on analogous racial criteri...
I don't understand how natural selection can select something if it doesn't already exist. Hence we are left with the issue of how these emergent prop...
In "Meaning Purpose and Intelligence" (1944) Kenneth Walker quotes Julian Huxley. "The purpose manifested in evolution, whether in adaption, specialis...
Here is a quote from a paper by a group of evolutionary psychologist. ". One class of limitations pertains to phenomena that are truly puzzling from a...
There is no reason for minds to exist. The only valid explanation is an explanation of how consciousness is produced. Consciousness is involved in num...
That is a irrelevant to explaining how consciousness is produced. Determinists and epiphenomenalists and eliminativists believe that consciousness has...
Biochemistry is the field that explains how body's are created. I don't see how evolution could give a causal explanation of the mind? The mind in the...
Huge numbers of species go extinct so it is not as though there is a natural force that demands life must go on at all costs. There is a huge range of...
The problem is not the mind body relationship but how mind comes to exist at all. Our minds are full of a huge range of things including awareness of ...
I have a degree in philosophy and psychology and I have had to read a lot of on the Philosophy of mind. I had to read Dennett's "Consciousness explain...
Here's what Dawkins says in "The Selfish Gene" "What is the selfish gene? It is not just one single physical bit of DNA Just as in the primeval soup, ...
Evolution consists of numerous claims not just one truth. The truth might be "some form of evolution has happened". A lot of claims recieve validity b...
Personally as someone who overeats I find the enjoyable taste of food a treadmill. (See obesity, tooth decay, heart disease) I think music is one of t...
One of the problems for me is my parents made me believe Christianity was absolutely true (by intimidation among other things) Abandoning it lead to a...
What I said is that evolution deflates the reasons we give for reproducing. What ever reason you have for having children by having children you are j...
All that exists after a parent dies is copies of some of their genes. I don't see any need to do that and haven't. If death is the end then when your ...
We were talking about creation and I am pointing out your parents created you. What is the difference between your parents creating you and a god crea...
But you are indebted to your parents in the same way. You only exist because of them. being created doesn't mean you owe a debt. I have argued this in...
I think alot of evolutionary claims have implications and are not just value free facts. In analogy, someone might tell you that you were adopted and ...
But in the evolutionary literature things are described in terms of adaptive pathways and adaptive "benefits". There is a hierarchy and a notion of de...
Dawkins writings are contradictory. I already quoted him here as calling us Gigantic lumbering robots. Saying we should some how transcend evolution d...
Explain the treatment of homosexuality then. Theorists are attempting to explain homosexuality as having adaptive advantage. They are not happy with i...
The spoon inherits a purpose but we don't. It doesn't randomly exist. What purpose could we be said to have? In a trivial sense someone can claim watc...
Despite modern technology our life is still about brute survival. Everyday we are struggling to stay alive. It is easier to fulfil basic needs giving ...
Design makes purpose and meaning somewhat inevitable. A spoon has a purpose and meaning for us. If we are here solely by chance and with no intention ...
This is not the equivalent to justify killing numerous people based on a notion of the survival of the fittest or justifying racism and forced sterili...
This is actually Richard Dawkins position especially in the selfish gene. "They did not die out, for they are past masters of the survival arts. But d...
This is What Richard Dawkins has claimed: "The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the ...
There are many planets that have no life on them and we still appreciate them. (We seem to be obsessed with Mars). I think harm can be objective but n...
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