Timeline for Philosophical assumptions underlying science
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| Jan 26, 2021 at 22:39 | comment | added | CriglCragl | @BigMac: Indeed. But the interests of our minds (eg global workspace with a strange-loop generated by self-reference) can diverge from the 'interests' of our genes, the unit of selection. Especially, where an additional layer of selection occurs, which by multi-level-selection principles, must coincide with individual/gene benefits, until it begins to provide additional, greater benefits - slime moulds, social insects, and the human memesphere, or language, able to confer benefits even from non-breeders innovations/behaviours, onto the wider population (eg kin of non-breeders). | |
| Jan 26, 2021 at 22:27 | comment | added | Big Mac | @CriglCragl Thanks. That's true enough as far as it goes. Much more to say about this, of course: e.g., the whole field of evolutionary epistemology. A big problem in the definition of science in the answer above is that much of science has no apparent survival value. | |
| Jan 26, 2021 at 18:49 | comment | added | CriglCragl | @BigMac: Hoffman is not an anti-realist, he simply says we must apply reason to perception, rather than assume reason & evolution (perception or sensory experience) must converge. For instance, repeat observations, or seek consilience from multiple senses. This amounts to cautioning against cognitive bias. | |
| Jan 26, 2021 at 3:40 | comment | added | Big Mac | @CriglCragl See this counterargument to Hoffman: Manolo Martínez (2019), "Usefulness drives representations to truth: a family of counterexamples to Hoffman's interface theory of perception", Grazer Philosophische Studien, 96(3), 319–341. doi.org/10.1163/18756735-09603004 | |
| Aug 19, 2020 at 23:19 | comment | added | CriglCragl | The idea knowing 'reality' directly correlates with survival doesn't hold water - see Donald Hoffman youtu.be/oYp5XuGYqqY | |
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