We can see that brains evolved & we know which bits of them produce which bits of our 'minds.' Our prefrontal cortex is key.
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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the criteria you adduced are not the correct criteria for good explanations
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independent testability and novel predictive success are how we distinguish good from bad (non-ad-hoc from ad-hoc) explanations
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a hypothesis that's not independently testable is an ad-hoc hypothesis
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