Braininvat » July 7th, 2017, 12:37 am wrote:LoL. And yes, the wattle grows daily. At 61, I can say time has been kind, but the same side of the family that gave me a Methusela gene, also passed along a scrawny English rockstar build, so there's not much chin fat with which to conceal the wattle. In ten years, I'll be able to frighten children. Wish I could now...too many pesky urchins in this 'hood.
I still think Fodor's found a non-problem, but I'm not up to dissecting it atm. Later, duderino.
Tee hee.
It's a foregone conclusion that any book attacking neo-Darwinian orthodoxy, or Edward I, is going to be hung, drawn and quartered even before publication or Longshanks has even laid eyes on it. In other words, what's being said isn't all that relevant; all that matters is that the sayer be silenced.
The response to Fodor's natural selection critique reminds me of Searle's Chinese Room argument, the latter of which was similarly pre-ordained to be slain (by angry AI hordes).
Everyone agrees something is wrong with it; no two people seem agreed on what that "
something" is.
All the usual suspects appear at the identification parade:
"
He doesn't understand biology" (cf "Trespassers will be shot")
"
There's more to evolution than natural selection" (That's nice. Hardly a refutation of a NS theory critique, though)
etc., etc.