did we vent so long it had to be broken up into two episodes? don’t ask me

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It’s really in everyone’s best interest for evolutionary psychology to better police its disciplinary boundaries and better integrate with contemporary evolutionary theory and methods. This Science Wars hold-over behavior just creates a refuge for this cadre of charlatans to fester

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Human cognition being non-physical wouldn't mean cognition can't be done by a machine either; maybe I should go occupy that lonely region of logical space

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I don’t think people really get just how different organisms are from other physical systems. Extremely different!! Very different stuff happening! Cannot happen outside a living system! The reasons are chemical but the result is a very different kind of processing

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Cognition being physical does not mean it can be done by a machine! The fact that one kind of physical system can do something does not mean a radically different one can. It’s like we forgot that physical systems are constrained by physical possibility

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