Thanks for the new yorker link. It explains who could publish a serious article that makes no sense and is just a rambling collection of fallacious arguments in favor of 'free will' and nay-saying cognative evolutionary biology without citing any evidence or presenting its own.
> So, what matters with regard to the question whether the mind is an adaptation is not how complex our behaviour is, but how much change you would have to make in an ape’s brain to produce the cognitive structure of a human mind. And about this, exactly nothing is known
Seems like begging the question to me, fam.
> you could get some by a miracle.
Well, at least that would be intellectually honest.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 10.5 ms ] threadSeems like begging the question to me, fam.
> you could get some by a miracle.
Well, at least that would be intellectually honest.