RE: A Working Draft Design Argument
October 18, 2019 at 2:01 pm
(This post was last modified: October 18, 2019 at 2:06 pm by Anomalocaris.)
The fundamental reason why acrobat is stuck in this rut is probably his brain, during its entire primate evolutionary history, didn't have much room to improve his ancestors' chances of survival by deducing why natural events occurs and changing how natural events occur, until near the very end of his own evolutionary history.
It did, however, have a long history of being able to improve his ancesters' chances of survival through advancing them socially in their packs by deducing the intentions of their mates. So fast forward to now, the part of Acrobat's brain that attempted to make sense of things in social context by assigning intentionality to a causal agent remains overactive. He is instinctively driven to trust it, however wrong it is. Compare to the strength of that social part of his brain, the part of his brain which reasons out causes in empirical, material context is weak, and cries with nothing more than a small, easily ignored voice, however right it might be.
He feels strongly all things must ultimately have a first cause with intentionality probably because he still "thinks" with his instincts, and his instincts are still much more that of a sociable monkey than rational man, to put it figuratively.
It did, however, have a long history of being able to improve his ancesters' chances of survival through advancing them socially in their packs by deducing the intentions of their mates. So fast forward to now, the part of Acrobat's brain that attempted to make sense of things in social context by assigning intentionality to a causal agent remains overactive. He is instinctively driven to trust it, however wrong it is. Compare to the strength of that social part of his brain, the part of his brain which reasons out causes in empirical, material context is weak, and cries with nothing more than a small, easily ignored voice, however right it might be.
He feels strongly all things must ultimately have a first cause with intentionality probably because he still "thinks" with his instincts, and his instincts are still much more that of a sociable monkey than rational man, to put it figuratively.
