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> Large brains are just tools That's an odd position to take. Surely there's a difference between the hand and what it grasps.
by sevensor 9y ago
> Large brains are just tools
That's an odd position to take. Surely there's a difference between the hand and what it grasps.
- notquitesure 9y agoThe difference is not between the hand and the tool it grasps, both of which apply force to manually manipulate the environment, but between the hand/tool and the mind that directs it. I agree that that is an odd position -- it's not one i hold, but a reductio of the "computers are tools no different than knives" argument above. machines that are able to process novel information and make decisions are fundamentally different from other machines, whether they are composed of tissue or silicon
- Sevii 9y agoYour dna is the hand in this metaphor.