RE: Do Humans Have Compulsary Will? Which best describes your take on 'will'?
May 31, 2015 at 7:44 am
(This post was last modified: May 31, 2015 at 8:09 am by The Grand Nudger.)
I'm not sure if you can claim to be discussing the evolution of the mind if you ask us to assume, as a given...at the outset..that your mind provides you with no additional utility. That, plainly, is to ask us to assume that the most well attested and sensible explanation for the persistence of a trait or structure, evolutionarily speaking...is not acceptable as an explanation from the word go. Additionally, you've saddled poor old evolution with some heinous shit in this thread, like simultaneous emergence/development......
How, do you imagine, can a person provide an answer that is both acceptable to you and within the framework of evolutionary biology, if we must accept that assertion and that baggage? All that remains as an option is to explain that brain confers advantage, utility, and so mind persists as a by-product of brain - but you won't accept that as an answer either...due to other assertions which you will impose upon the discussion.
Heads you win, tails we lose. You are actively creating a situation in which your question cannot be answered..but not because it is unanswerable, or because those answers available lack explanatory power.
How, do you imagine, can a person provide an answer that is both acceptable to you and within the framework of evolutionary biology, if we must accept that assertion and that baggage? All that remains as an option is to explain that brain confers advantage, utility, and so mind persists as a by-product of brain - but you won't accept that as an answer either...due to other assertions which you will impose upon the discussion.
Heads you win, tails we lose. You are actively creating a situation in which your question cannot be answered..but not because it is unanswerable, or because those answers available lack explanatory power.
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