This points out, albeit only through its striking omission from these models, the fundamental differentia specifica between all animal consciousness and the truly human creative mind. Humans are uniquely capable of creating a mission to change their practices to obtain a new plateau of capability in increasing available resources by redefining and expanding them through technological innovation. Thus breaking the fixity inherent in proceeding merely deductively from past experiences like dumb beasts. In the language of mathematical physics new singularities are envisioned in the purview of distinctly human sovereign noetic mental processes.
Eratosthenes first measured the circumference of the earth from the shadows cast by the sun. Today, humanity's fitness to survive will be measured by our ability to conquer that same thermonuclear fusion that casts those shadows. Thus, Prometheus will truly be unbound.
Friday, May 31, 2013
Why Behaviorists by Definition Are Incapable of Comprehending Human Creativity
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I will allow myself to disagree a bit :)
ReplyDeleteI call it "internalism" and "externalism". Mind, sensorical experience ("the given" vs "stimulus") language, psyche, culture, science etc. Internalists interpet. Externalist explain. (these terms "i/e" are also used in physics or quasi-physic with same meaning). There is a whole spectrum of intermediate positions. However, externalism is still insufficient.
[omiting longer discusion, to final point:]
It is not "mental events" that mysteriously dvell in brains spread all over the earth, that create meanings, culture, science. They did not do science before their group-level organization was sufficienty sink into buildings, roads, farms, many types of tools, behavioral protocols passed on newborns, etc. etc. It is not sum of individual "minds" that drives science now, because it would be nothing without busines, politics, laws. There were times similar physical structure of distributed tools standed as ground for burning first scientist.
And it goes deeper, to begining of mind ... of social animals .. etc. whole evolution. .. We see that it is environment that creates "computation" within itself, not that mysteriously some creatures self-organise and emerge thinking out of nothing.
Embodiment without phenomenology.
Eco-self-organization.
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