Re: Robot Evolution



"Phil Roberts, Jr." philrob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:-

Our brains are what has led to our domination of the planet.

Actually, the postulated nonobservable causal substrate
that gives rise to our perception of a brain via one route
and our apperception of thoughts and feelings via another
route is what has led to our domination of the planet.
That, and millenia of cultural evolution.

JE:-
The word "domination" remains emotionally loaded so it is best avoided.

Phil,
Are you a devotee of Hume who decided that because he could not understand
induction then it didn't exist?

Our astoundingly fast biological radiation depended entirely on our unique
ability to make and apply deductively, empirically based INDUCTIONS. The
most importance of these was cognitive mutualised exchange occurring within
interdependent (not dependent) tribal units which subsequently expanded at
an astonishing rate.

Regards,

John Edser
Independent Researcher

edser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx



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