What do you mean by 'mind' that differs from 'brain'? Can you be very clear?
If I showed you a fish's brain & a human brain &demonstrated that the latter can speak but former can't,this would be evidence of adaptation
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it's equally evidence that it's a by-product of adaptation
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What do you mean by this? How are brains a by-product of adaptation?
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what evidence favors an adaptive over a by-product explanation?
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For what, exactly?
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what evidence favors the hypothesis that the brain is an adaptation over the hypothesis that it's a by-product of adaptation?
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This doesn't really make sense because the brain is the self. Everything we do, want, think.
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no - selfhood is not reducible to anything physical
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Sorry, I've had enough of these assertions and more interesting conversations are happening now. Please move on.
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However, it would be *scientific* evidence of adaptation so I do not see any way to justify the hypothesis without resorting to science.
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a hypothesis can be justified by data that wasn't used in its construction - that's what independent justification means
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that's how we distinguish good from bad, or better from worse, explanations
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No, I don't think so. I think evidence, testing, replication, utility is the way we distinguish good & bad explanations.
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ad-hoc explanations are not good explanations
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LOL. Such argumentation.
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"Zeus exists and when he's angry he lights up the sky with thunderbolts" is an explanation for why the sky lights up with thunderbolts
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Yes, I know what explanations are, thank you. If there was as much evidence for Zeus as there was for evolution, I'd accept him.
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