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I just can't help but comment on the strange notion of a "list of reasons why". The few correlations our feeble minds just happen to notice are not mystical de
by sublinear 4y ago
I just can't help but comment on the strange notion of a "list of reasons why".
The few correlations our feeble minds just happen to notice are not mystical decisions whereby nature slowly yields to the will of its creatures over many generations. Asking "why" is just anthropomorphizing for the sake of it.
- hyperpape 4y ago"List of reasons why" isn't meaningfully different from "list of factors causing X". To ask "why" is to ask for an explanation, and doesn't imply any anthropomorphizing. This isn’t absolutely obvious, because reason has two different characteristic uses: asking agents their reasons for acting, and asking the reason some event happened. Philosophers have spent a lot of time asking how those two uses are related.
- raincom 4y agoOne is called "intentional" explanation; the other, "causal" explanation.
- elevaet 4y ago"Why" is shorthand for the minutae of actual selection pressures that take much longer to type out than "why".
- edgyquant 4y ago>The few correlations our feeble minds just happen to notice are not mystical decisions This is not an objective fact, it’s your interpretation. People are allowed to believe reality is divine and “anthropomorphism” is a strawman. Something you’re doing in your head and projecting onto others.
- JoeAltmaier 4y agoUm, we are talking about people, right? So 'anthropomorphising' is maybe not the word we wanted here?