it'd be nice if we had compact, intuitive language for talking about the fitness advantages and the stresses that are their mirror image that caused an evolved feature to be selected for without resorting to speaking of an evolved feature's "design goals" or "purpose"
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Gotcha. Millikan talks about “proper functions” which is mayyyybe less prone to forcibly singular-ising. But maybe this is not a problem of terminology but attitude anyway?
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"proper" still has that weird line drawn between what it *should* be doing and the rest of what it *is* doing, but at least it's plural, lol. terminology vs. attitude: maybe? but, y'know, neural nets gonna neural net and terminology is gonna drag you toward its grounding
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