How do you survive in an environment without having some true knowledge of the environment? Is seems to me that your survival is the best catalyst for...
Does it not benefit you to learn the rules of the society you live in, especially when the consquences for not following; them can result in your exec...
Successful as in successfully propagating your genes, sure. There are other kinds of success - but it all can be resolved down to surviving and passin...
Duty and morals are instilled by our social environment, which is merely a kind of natural environment that we find ourselves in and need to navigate ...
All three can be reduced to the ends of propagating one's genes. This isn't to say that genes have ends and means. Genes are simply mindless things th...
Then why do we have a body AND a soul? If it is believed that we can interact with God and other souls when we are merely souls, then why do we need b...
Blah Blah Blah. Again you are repeating yourself ad nauseam without addressing the point I made in my previous posts. I would just repeat the 3rd and ...
How would we label some behavior or idea as "good" if bad behaviors or bad ideas didn't exist? Would "good" still be a viable term if there never was ...
It's only controversial to those that aren't educated in modern theories of neurology. When you don't even make an attempt to learn about these things...
You're talking as if the man's plea for God to change his plan isn't part of God's plan. God, if it exists and is omniscient (and if he isn't then he ...
I don't get it. Why would a man lying on his death bed desire God when God, if it exists, created the circumstances of him being on his death bed in t...
This doesn't necessarily mean that they need God. They simply need power - which can come from different sources, like science discovering ways in whi...
And you still haven't watched the first video I posted a link to in this forum. Tooby emphasizes at the end of the video: "One difference between the ...
No. You didn't read enough and you projected something unrelated into what was explained in the book. Linguistics was never used in the link I provide...
Here is an interesting excerpt from Robert W. Lurz's book, "The Philosophy of Animal Minds": https://books.google.com/books?id=YfYfAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA38&lp...
Andrew4Handel, what is learning? Isn't learning mentally/behaviorally adapting to your environment? Doesn't having a mind allow you to adapt much more...
I'm not conflating anything. If something is beneficial, it is selected (passed down to subsequent generations). How does a beneficial trait come abou...
As I already said in the post you responded to, if you think in words, then you think in visual scribbles and sounds, as that is all words are. How di...
"I've got a monocle of the greater space and time. Some would like to get my monocle, try and use it for a crime. No success in that category, you see...
You need to watch the video with Tooby and Cosmides and pay special attention to what Tooby explains near the end. I already went over homosexuality. ...
Why is it that you can't answer a simple question? You avoiding it just shows that you aren't being intellectually honest. I've addressed and answered...
No it isn't. You need to know why minds exist to understand how they are produced, especially in a world where there is evolution by natural selection...
So you have clear and cut evidence that lizards and fish don't have minds? Where is Reformed Nihilist and his criticism of conjecture? If one trusts t...
This is like saying that in a discussion of religion it's okay to talk about religion when all you know is the religion you practice, and not anything...
Then you aren't up to par with modern theories of evolution, which include the field of evolutionary psychology. You and everyone else in this thread ...
Is the brain part of the body? Is not the mind what the brain does? Other animals have adapted their anatomy and behaviors that initially evolved to s...
Instead of quoting, why don't you reflect on your own mind and the skills you wouldn't have if you didn't have one - and how you would survive if you ...
The issue at hand is that I seem to be arguing with one of those holdouts that simply won't accept the theory of evolution by natural selection and th...
It's when it goes past the simple quoting of a long-dead philosopher - when they attempt to defend what they said without integrating it with the know...
And that is the problem that evolutionary psychology attempts to solve. Do we have minds and other animals don't? If so, then why? Why would minds evo...
Is camouflage passed down? Is it not a solution to a problem? Of course there is no final solution, as the environment is dynamic. This is utter nonse...
No. Problems aren't passed down, but their solutions are. The socio-cultural surroundings is basically our environment that we find ourselves in. A co...
The ways we think are a result of the environmental (natural and social) problems our ancestors faced and needed to solve. We haven't changed much sin...
The field explores the problems our ancestors had to solve and the mental processes and functions that would solve them and how that explains our curr...
You are aware that there are more options than just Dennett's, right? Ever heard of the attention schema theory of consciousness? It should be obvious...
Having no sea-coast, Bolivia has no seaport except what may be granted in usufruct by Chile. What did I mean by "usufruct"? Did you already know what ...
Genes don't try to do anything. They don't have a mind with a goal that they then try to achieve. They simply function as a result of causal forces dr...
It is difficult to test any theory of evolution by natural selection. The process can take thousands of years (conservatively) to play out, but this i...
Definitions are statements expressing the essential nature of something. Meaning, according to Paul Grice, has two kinds - natural and non-natural. Na...
...which includes the diverse ways in which minds work and adapt (learn) to the environment, hence evolutionary psychology's new and powerful explanat...
My father is very religious, but not as harsh as your parents. I was raised as a Christian and was even "saved" and baptized. I abandoned those belief...
Genes don't even care about their survival. They don't even possess knowledge. Genes just do what they do. We can have many reasons for doing the thin...
Natural selection is a process, not a concept. The theory of evolution by natural selection is a concept. Desires are natural inclinations. It's reall...
The solution seems to be that any ship that Theseus owns would be a ship of Theseus. Are we simply talking about ownership (which also applies with gr...
Well, saying it like that would be anthropomorphic. I didn't use the word, "desire" in my post. Genes don't have desires. They just do what they do as...
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