RE: 400,000 Year Old Cranium Found in Portugal
March 29, 2017 at 5:25 pm
(This post was last modified: March 29, 2017 at 5:45 pm by Brian37.)
(March 29, 2017 at 4:55 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: How do we know animals have confirmation bias, please?
I didn't say animals do, I said OUR confirmation bias is rooted in gap filling, which other species do do. Confirmation bias is simply a human form of gap filling. Animals do learn from their parents just like humans do. I was just watching a PBS documentary the other day about a species of monkey, in this troop the social norm, or pattern of bearing teeth, is a sign of respect to the alpha leader or any higher up. It is also a form of pattern seeking and learning to develop social order. Even those monkeys don't know over time don't have our higher cognition to know, while that pattern works short term, the leader eventually gets old and a younger one competes to take over. So even on a primitive level while it isn't "confirmation bias" like humans, the monkeys confirm their roles through the patterns they develop over generations.
The point is our brains developed to gap fill. Just like a predator insect wont eat that butterfly with the eyes on it's wings.
To the "fine tuner"advocates in this thread, lets see if this analogy works to explain why you should consider you are wrong.
Lets pretend we have two billionaires. One got 50 million from their parents when they turned 18 and built their wealth with a good head start. But the second one started out in a poor family with nothing and worked their way up to being a billionaire?
Which would seem much more difficult and unlikely to make it to the top? The one who had help, or the one who had no help?
I do see life as and the universe as amazing. I think theists stupidly try to argue or falsely think we cant have a sense of awe but we do. I find life and the universe extremely amazing, with all the good things and destructive things in it. I find trying to plop a magic puppeteer in as an answer cheapens all this by trying to explain it with such a concept.
By no means is this an economic argument. Just metaphor to explain why the "fine tuning" argument makes no sense. But the big three monotheistic religions of Abraham are not the only religions with creator god concepts regardless.
