Sonny, There is a lot of redundancy in what I'm going to say below because I've made an attempt to argue a point in various ways. As my second response to your...
Oops, wrong thread! I'll re-post. Stvee Moxon ... From: steve moxon To: human-ethology@yahoogroups.com Cc: Jay R. Feierman Sent: Friday, August 24, 2007 7:42...
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Sorry, this is an old message that should have been deleted by the moderator. It was re-posted by error on September 1, 2007. Steve reposted it on August 24th...
Jay, Given the clarifications of what you've said, as well as the rewording of some things I've said, we have a great deal of agreement. When I said "natural...
Sonny Williams: The fundamental position I take is that a structure cannot be separated from its function. Jay R. Feierman: Sonny, that statement goes against...
Sonny Williams: You say, "cognition is a functional attribute, which cannot have structure." Jay R. Feierman: Yes, I said that. Sonny Williams: The function...
Sonny Williams: I agree that different scientific disciplines (Human Ethology, Cognitive Science, Evolutionary Psychology, etc.) "only [have] to be consistent...
Moderator Note: The file, which is a very interesting Buss et al article on Evolutionary Psychology is quite long (3.88 MB). I've put it on the ISHE, Human...
Sonny Williams: I only need a better understanding of why you think understanding brain structures is even possible without linking them, without using them in...
Jay, I agree completely that, "If one starts with function, one can not presume that this function has an underlying, specific structure, which has evolved by...
Sonny Williams has sent an attachment to one of his postings, which is a PDF of an article written by David Buss et al. on Evolutionary Psychology. The file...
Jay, My reply here can serve to answer two other posts, in which you essentially raise the same. I can agree when you say, "It is not possible to understand...
In another thread, Judith Hand disagreed with my statement that women are instinctively "better suited" to the nurturing role, and she cited the work of Sarah...
Sonny Williams: It is a brain structure's function that results in retaining the structure, not the other way around. Jay R. Feierman: What happens when a...
Sonny Williams: I also note with great curiosity a review printed in the journal Animal Behavior, "Social influences on foraging in vertebrates: causal...
Sonny Williams: The brain's structures are not adaptations, their functions are. Jay R. Feierman: In my part of the world, we are at a point that would be...
Sonny Williams: More pointedly, Jay says, "individuals with superior structural variations in their amygdala left more offspring," and that's not only...
Sonny Williams: Here's where EP and Ethology can co-exist. You'll apparently keep calling it a "just so story" until the structure has been identified, which...
Sonny Williams: I agree completely that, "If one starts with function, one can not presume that this function has an underlying, specific structure, which has...
Sonny Williams: Why isn't the "the puppy retrieval instinct" a functionally defined behavior, an attributed property? Jay R. Feierman: First, just as Tinbergen...
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