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That’s the danger of Occam’s razor and of simple answers. “Simplicity” is often a hiding place for our biases. We reach the conclusion we want to reach and then
by copsarebastards 11y ago
That’s the danger of Occam’s razor and of simple answers. “Simplicity” is often a hiding place for our biases. We reach the conclusion we want to reach and then call it simple. --Plaza Garabaldi
I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm saying that I don't actually agree with you that brains being hardwired with information is that hard to explain.
- erispoe 11y agoGreat, I want to know more about it. Do you have some references on that?
- briantakita 11y agoTry interpreting the observation of animals & humans through a lens of their behavior being similar given certain contexts.
- erispoe 11y agoI don't want to solve a riddle here, but I am genuinely interested in the evidence supporting the nativist hypothesis in this context, especially on how you'd pass abstract information through genes. Do you have any reference, a good scientific paper that could be an entry point?