Re:Imagining Life as a Stack of Mental States
by bigiain on Monday June 03, 2019 @02:10AM
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You _can_ hammer a nail in using a power drill.
But that doesn't mean there aren't better tools for hammering nails with, or jobs that a power drill does way better than hammering nails.
(I'm not _really_ convinced that pop psychology explanations involving our brains being optimised for not-getting-eaten-by-lions are necessarily correct, but I certainly acknowledge that some of our physiology like our vision system and muscle makeup have evolved under different conditions to sitting in a university with instructions to "Write down the problem. Think really hard. Write down the answer.", as Feynman characterised the process of discovering modern physics...)
But that doesn't mean there aren't better tools for hammering nails with, or jobs that a power drill does way better than hammering nails.
(I'm not _really_ convinced that pop psychology explanations involving our brains being optimised for not-getting-eaten-by-lions are necessarily correct, but I certainly acknowledge that some of our physiology like our vision system and muscle makeup have evolved under different conditions to sitting in a university with instructions to "Write down the problem. Think really hard. Write down the answer.", as Feynman characterised the process of discovering modern physics...)