RE: How we determine facts.
January 7, 2015 at 2:33 pm
(This post was last modified: January 7, 2015 at 2:34 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 7, 2015 at 2:05 pm)JuliaL Wrote: Wha? Seeking truth is exactly what evolution winnows out of variability.We're not very good at predicting the future. Your brain evolved to seek dinner, not truth - or truth defined as "ability to predict the future". Obviously, it's alot more complicated and this is just a catchy phrase...however.....
Truth being defined as an accurate ability to predict the future. That's why
we got frontal lobes: to create models to predict future events and guide
current behavior to align our best interests with them. Now
finding Truth, well, that's a different matter.
Quote:I don't hold with the true means 'in accordance with the actual state ofIOW, you don't think brains are very good at seeking truth -for a variety of reasons-. Neither do I.
affairs ' definition because it fails to consider the accessibility of reality or
the asynchronous confusion as to our concept of 'now' given the lag
between information impinging on our senses and the processing time
involved before it is presented to self.
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