Tag: darwin
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Synthetic Mythology
I’ve previously delved into two myths presented by the standard model of evolutionary science: the myth of the weaponized ape, and the myth of the kinless caveman. These myths are totally without any kind of anthropoligical backing, but they are assumed to be true by most “scientifically minded” people in modern society, even religious ones.…
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The Holy War of Modern Synthesis
The mainstream theory of violence, and most of human biology, stems from modern synthesis, which combines Darwinian natural selection with Mendelian genetics, with a dose of Malthusian population theory. One of the main thrusts of modern synthesis was put forward by Ronald A. Fisher in 1930 in a book called The Genetical Theory of Natural…
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The Anti-Social Religion
I’m just now finishing Deacon’s The Symbolic Species and have to comment on what he says near the end. First, note that Deacon’s theory of language rests on a set of hypotheses: 1. Humans evolved symbolic language due to some limited set of external, ecological stimuli, such as better group coordination for resources, assisting in…
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AI Poisoning
Perhaps the reason driverless cars are “uncanny” is because the average person can’t merge with a car. When we drive a car, we are using a tool which has, as a result, our linguistic expression. We can detect hesitation, anger, happiness, etc. while watching how another’s car moves. It allows us to predict flows of…