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“But what about human reasoning is truly a human-unique feature and what aspects are shared with our nonhuman relatives?" Doesn't it make sense that much of hu
by asciimo 12y ago
“But what about human reasoning is truly a human-unique feature and what aspects are shared with our nonhuman relatives?"
Doesn't it make sense that much of human cognition is shared by other animals? We share common ancestors and countless physical traits.
- DiabloD3 12y agoThe problem is there has been thousands and thousands and thousands of pages written about cognition (human or otherwise) since the mid 1800s. Ultimately, I'm not even totally convinced human cognition exists: explain to me how we're not just some sort of weird behavior exhibited by a massively parallel pattern matching engine; our ability to match patterns is the basis of all of our culture, our language, our everything. We're organic regular expressions.
- lotsofmangos 12y agoexplain to me how we're not just some sort of weird behavior exhibited by a massively parallel pattern matching engine The very question would seem to assume that one can be cognisant of an explanation.
- proksoup 12y agoAn explanation being a description of the repeated pattern that was recognized and condensed into an explanation using pattern matching?
- lotsofmangos 12y agoNo, probably it would involve explaining why that is bollocks. But I may be biased by the illusion of cognition.
- ArekDymalski 12y agoYou aren't the only one in doubt. There was an experiment that caused real controversy in the 60ies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Libet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Libet