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Human brain is bound and conditioned by the shared physical environment. The process of evolution accumulates so-called hard-wired heuristics which reflect what
by lngnmn 10y ago
Human brain is bound and conditioned by the shared physical environment. The process of evolution accumulates so-called hard-wired heuristics which reflect what usually happens in the environment. This is the machinery behind of some intuitions or Kant's "apriory knowledge". The "knowledge" is represented as a structure (circuitry), not information.
What is obvious, anything which could not be captured by the senses and does not directly influence the chances of survival and reproduction cannot be represented into a brain structure and cannot be the source of related intuitions.
Abstract concepts and generalized notions would necessarily reflect observable empirical phenomena, not imaginable.
In other words, this is another hipster's nonsense.
- CuriouslyC 10y agoKind of ironic to throw around Kant then call something hipster nonsense ;)
- lngnmn 10y agoWhy, Kant has been explicit that such kind of knowledge must be there prior to the sensory conditioning of the mind (through which each baby goes), hundreds of years before modern machine learning algorithms, so he is an extraordinary thinker indeed. He just attributed it to some metaphysical abstractions, perhaps due to being prejudiced by all the religious dogmatic nonsense, and the social consensus which refused to consider a man being mere a machine and everything in the universe as an unfolding of one single process.