Re: Explaining belief in the absurd
Something makes me suspect that were just hardwired to prefer anecdotal evidence from an evolutionary perspective.
If we decide to not eat mushrooms because we felt sick this will probably will not remove us from the genepool, but if we continue to eat the mushrooms of differant kinds this could kill us.
Essentially making a sweeping general choice safeguards us and allows us pass on our genes, nowadays were likely not a risk from eating a forest mushroom but our brains still make those same choices.
Re: Explaining belief in the absurd
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gaelic cowboy
Something makes me suspect that were just hardwired to prefer anecdotal evidence from an evolutionary perspective.
If we decide to not eat mushrooms because we felt sick this will probably will not remove us from the genepool, but if we continue to eat the mushrooms of differant kinds this could kill us.
Essentially making a sweeping general choice safeguards us and allows us pass on our genes, nowadays were likely not a risk from eating a forest mushroom but our brains still make those same choices.
Where does preference on anecdotal evidence factor into humanities natural tendency to imagine and create? Anecdotal evidence usually relies on something having an effect on you, not the other way around. It's logic and critical thinking that has someone shaping a handle for a tool to create more torque.
Re: Explaining belief in the absurd
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Where does preference on anecdotal evidence factor into humanities natural tendency to imagine and create? Anecdotal evidence usually relies on something having an effect on you, not the other way around. It's logic and critical thinking that has someone shaping a handle for a tool to create more torque.
Actually, it's isn't logic and critically thinking - logic and critical thinking is how you develop an idea, not how you come up with one.
Anecdotal observation is how you conclude that logs rolls better than sleds, so putting logs under your sleds would be a good idea.
