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¿POR QUÉ NO VIVIMOS MÁS TIEMPO? 💡 Una respuesta crítica a Peter Godfrey-Smith 📚 ¿Por qué unos organismos viven décadas y otros apenas unos meses? Peter Godfrey-Smith, en 'Otras mentes', responde apelando a una tradición teórica del neodarwinismo. #TeoríaDeLaEvolución #Reseñas 👇👇
In Peter Godfrey-Smith’s “Living on Earth,” humans are in no way separate from the life that surrounds us.
In Peter Godfrey-Smith’s “Living on Earth,” humans are in no way separate from the life that surrounds us.
"You can see yourself from the outside in an episodic memory. The new thinking about episodic memory [...] included ideas about what purpose this kind of memory serves. [...] They suggested that the important and useful thing we do with mental time travel is simulate possible situations in order to aid planning. These situations need never have happened -- they are mere possibilities, things that might come about tomorrow. Episodic memory, which looks backward, is a byproduct of this forward thinking ability. Why should we believe this? One reason is that episodic memory is so unreliable. If its role was to be a mere record, we might expect something more accurate. The combo of unreliability and vividness seen in episodic memory is apart of what suggests that it is a byproduct of a skill in exploring possible futures. A forward-looking faculty brings with it an ability to cook up pasts as well."
-Peter Godfrey-Smith from Metazoa
"Wild dolphins sometimes have a strikingly close engagement with people. A few years ago I saw a dolphin who regularly visits Cabbage Tree Bay, the marine reserve near Sydney [...]. This dolphin, well-known along those shores, is a female [...]. She lived on her own, after losing her pod some time ago, and does not seem too concerned about her unusual life. That day in the water, a lot of swimmers hung around, many just to see the dolphin. We kept a distance, but she would zoom in. She took a particular liking to a young man with red hair. When he dived down, she would come rocketing in and bring her face very close to his, repeatedly, so close that it looked like she was going to kiss him. I don't know why she singled him out for this attention. Some people seem to have a way of moving through the water -- perhaps a calmness, but it seems more distinctive than this -- that appeals to particular animals. I've seen this with Matt Laurence [...]. Something about him makes octopuses want to play, and they often end up crawling all over him. It was similar with the red-haired man and the lone dolphin."
-Peter Godfrey-Smith from Metazoa
Simplicity is often attractive, but simple answers are often false.
from Theory and Reality by Peter Godfrey-Smith
Scientific belief is not the product of us alone or of the world alone; it is the product of an interaction between our psychological capacities, our social organization, and the structure of the world. The world does not 'stamp' beliefs upon us, in science or elsewhere. Still, science is responsive to the structure of the world, via the channel of observation.
from Theory and Reality by Peter Godfrey-Smith
