Natural selection cannot evolve any capacity that it cannot distinguish from every other capacity.
Why natural selection can't evolve improved ability to understand other minds ?
Also, sexual selection can favour features that confer no survival advantage, like peacock's tail.
I seem to remember, that you used to favour Penrose's argument based on Godel's theorem. What is its status ? I began to read Pinker's "How the Mind Works", where he claims that it is "debunked". Bennet's book "Why evolution is true" seemed to me more thoughtful, but he, too, seems to me too enthusiastic about "Strong AI". One would think that the continuing failure of AI research to produce something with the "intellect" of a common household cockroach ought to have given him a pause...
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Why natural selection can't evolve improved ability to understand other minds ?
Also, sexual selection can favour features that confer no survival advantage, like peacock's tail.
I seem to remember, that you used to favour Penrose's argument based on Godel's theorem. What is its status ? I began to read Pinker's "How the Mind Works", where he claims that it is "debunked". Bennet's book "Why evolution is true" seemed to me more thoughtful, but he, too, seems to me too enthusiastic about "Strong AI". One would think that the continuing failure of AI research to produce something with the "intellect" of a common household cockroach ought to have given him a pause...