RE: The redneck strike again.
July 20, 2014 at 3:59 pm
(This post was last modified: July 20, 2014 at 4:00 pm by Whateverist.)
(July 20, 2014 at 3:38 pm)Confused Ape Wrote: Opposable thumbs make advanced tool making possible but is tool making necessary for the development of big brains and our kind of consciousness? Scientific discoveries would be next to impossible without thumbs and tools but philosophy doesn't need them.
Not unless it turns out that philosophy is somehow a bi-product of thumbs, tools and science. Not saying it is. Just saying this shit is complicated and causal relations can be convoluted.