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Editor @AreoMagazine Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Writing book about epistemology & ethics on the academic left Helen.pluckrose@areomagazine.com

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    1. ATTLEE‏ @_attlee 8 Sep 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      cognitive abilities and psychological traits, yes

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    2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 8 Sep 2017
      Replying to @_attlee

      We can see that brains evolved & we know which bits of them produce which bits of our 'minds.' Our prefrontal cortex is key.

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    3. ATTLEE‏ @_attlee 8 Sep 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      thats not independent justification

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    4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 8 Sep 2017
      Replying to @_attlee

      What is it you want, exactly? You needn't be a scientist to see the difference between a fish & a human but those differences are biological

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    5. ATTLEE‏ @_attlee 8 Sep 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      i want independent evidence that humans possess mental adaptations

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    6. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 8 Sep 2017
      Replying to @_attlee

      Independent of what? What is a way that you can look at how brains developed & what they do that isn't science? What do you mean?

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    7. ATTLEE‏ @_attlee 8 Sep 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      independent of what the hypothesis was invoked to explain

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    8. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 8 Sep 2017
      Replying to @_attlee

      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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    9. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 8 Sep 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose @_attlee

      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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    10. ATTLEE‏ @_attlee 8 Sep 2017
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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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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 8 Sep 2017
      Replying to @_attlee

      Can you give an example of what could justify the evolution of brains?

      4:18 AM - 8 Sep 2017
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        2. ATTLEE‏ @_attlee 8 Sep 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          evidence justifies the claim that the brain evolved

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        3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 9 Sep 2017
          Replying to @_attlee

          That was my position & there's tonnes of it in fossils & embryology & more.

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        4. ATTLEE‏ @_attlee 9 Sep 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          i didn't ask you to justify the evolution of brains

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