James, I apparently misled you into believing I was talking about the definition of behavior, whereas I was referring to Jay's dichotomy. That's what I don't...
For what it's worth, I put group level selection in the same category as cultural evolution. It's a useful analogy for the process involved in transmitting...
Jay, Sure, I could force myself to omit any use of the word function in restating the process of evolution through natural selection, but I'd find myself doing...
Jay, I am NOT referring to the definition of behavior, but to your argument for separating behavior into either functionally or structurally defined, which...
Sonny Williams: Sure, I could force myself to omit any use of the word function in restating the process of evolution through natural selection, but I'd find...
Sonny Williams: I am NOT referring to the definition of behavior, but to your argument for separating behavior into either functionally or structurally...
Sonny Williams: For what it's worth, I put group level selection in the same category as cultural evolution. It's a useful analogy for the process involved in...
Dear Jay, I have read a huge amount on "science of religion"; I am member of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion" and have attended at a regular...
Lluis Oviedo: It is not the same to explain the love experience in terms of hormonal dynamics (funny the dossier in a recent issue of TIME magazine) and...
Sonny, Ok, I was on the wrong track. To me the two categories Jay uses are useful and not misleading. I asked in another post if you accept that structurally...
James, ... I wasn't suggesting there was any. As I wrote in my post, I was just speaking off the cuff, not theorizing. What I referred to was the way that the...
Sonny, Putting behavior into one of the two categories is very useful to me and I can't understand why you disagree. One of the reasons I can't understand...
Benjamin Abelow: If childhood did not exert a shaping influence on central New Testament narrative and salvation traditions, I argue, there is no plausible way...
Benjamin Abelow: Yes, it [my paper] can help explain Christianity's success, but note that, even more clearly, it helps explain important aspects of its...
Sonny Williams: Apparently, you've changed your mind, now agreeing that an enzyme metabolizing glucose in order to attach to a substrate is critical to...
Benjamin Abelow: We might in reality have a HADD, which could make us inclined to believing in a divine Agent. Jay R. Feierman: Yes and no. I am absolutely...
James & Sonny, I don't believe it is possible for the two of you to discuss this and make any sense to one another unless you are both using the same...
Hello, Jay, The testable hypotheses you suggest certainly are reasonable and do-able. I also have thought of such things, even some of the same things. For...
Jay, I'm trying to clarify whether Sonny uses the structurally defined behavior concept, using any of the different words for this, or not. Campbell and Reece...
Lluis, in your last post to me you wrote, ... Jay sent me a set of articles, including the one by Fodor titled Against Darwinism, which I understood to be the...
Benjamin, I just thought of another issue for you to consider. Part of what you are proposing is similar to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Yet, in PTSD...
... I think a lot of it just has to do with the definitions and verbal norms that pertain in different scholarly communities. In many settings I could say...
Benjamin Abelow: In many settings I could say "structure," or "projection" or "canon" in the same senses I've used them in some posts and be understood in all...
How the Hyoid Bone Changed History By Heather Whipps, LiveScience's History Columnist posted: 04 February 2008 08:15 am ET Our gift of the gab is all due to a...
Autistic children may relate better to virtual children than to real children because the virtual children do not contain the same number of human social...
Science News Poor Recognition Of 'Self' Found In High Functioning People With Autism ScienceDaily (Feb. 10, 2008) - Contrary to popular notions, people at the...
F.J. Ayala Darwin's greatest discovery: design without designer. Proc. National Academy of Sciences 104(Supplement 1):8567-8573 2007 ABSTRACT. Darwin's...
Jay, OK, I'll accept that you've used wording that successfully avoided use of the term function, but your point has not been made. Function is the proper...
"The Stanford team studied reports of canoe designs from 11 Oceanic island cultures. They evaluated 96 functional features (such as how the hull was...
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