(urth) barrington interview

[Thomas Bitterman]

On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 9:40 AM, Lee <severiansola at hotmail.com> wrote:


> A theoretical mathematician may feel he/she is working purely in the realm
> of symbolic logic and reason but it cannot be so.  The adult human brain
> is a
> product of millions of years of evolution on planet earth combined with
> decades
> of personal experience and perceptual input from the person's life.
>
> The suggestion that the human brain can somehow  decide to operate
> independently
> from its evolution and the personal experience which molded it is like
> saying a
> automobile could suddenly, spontaneously reject its engineering and
> construction and
> start running on nuclear fusion power technology. I don't see how it can
> possibly make
> sense.
>
> (is suggesting a car can't spontaneously become a nuclear fusion device an
> example
> of "Genetic Fallacy"?)
>

No, but claiming that a brain cannot work purely in the realm of symbolic
logic and reason because it is the product of millions of years of
evolution on Earth is.

-- 
"Language gives us everything - except the ability to talk, or even think,
about what it took from us in exchange." - Justin Boland
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