@Billare @sarahdoingthing how a river flows has lots of random components to it, is the course of a river subjective?
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@emareaf@sarahdoingthing You are importing lots of scientific baggage that can't fit into this small space with that question.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@emareaf@sarahdoingthing Ex: fact that course stays same is analogizable to gross characters being correlated despite underlying randomness1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@emareaf@sarahdoingthing But these are open empirical questions: Does evolution fully explore the state space? Are there dominant "plans"?1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@emareaf@sarahdoingthing I mean, some would believe altruism, or sociality, are "inevitable", or dominant, given enough time to evolve1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@emareaf@sarahdoingthing These things are not proved, anywhere close to it. There may be insuperable historical contingency in evolution.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@emareaf@sarahdoingthing Acknowledging any contigency would seem to me to conflict w/ the connotation that "objective" is meant to convey.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@sarahdoingthing@emareaf Yes, that is false. But he should have relied on common ancestry. There was an Edge discussion on this wrt stories2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@sarahdoingthing@emareaf "The way we live our lives in stories" http://edge.org/conversation/the-way-we-live-our-lives-in-stories … People globally tend to like the same motifs in 'em1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
@Billare @emareaf I'm obsessed with this book http://books.google.com/books?id=3fah9UGzVJ8C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false … - inter alia, that most of intelligence is pattern-matching stories
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@sarahdoingthing@emareaf The key question is he using psychometric intelligence? Maybe there are other kinds..I'm not v. interested in1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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