Yep. That's a fantastic example of metaphysical predisposition interfering with one's ability to reason well. When I was a kid, my mom and I would argue a lot about whether animals had souls. She claimed they absolutely did not. Being young, I had no real idea what a soul was. But I would argue that her justification for her belief was all from her religion (Catholicism). *Practically*, her belief was exhibited when my beagle (Snoopy, of course) was killed by a car. She tossed his body in the regular garbage and he was crushed and hauled away. To this day, she has no idea why that was so horrible.
On 07/19/2018 09:15 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > < Data driven modeling takes a different approach. It _attempts_ to > derive models *directly* from the biology (as directly as possible, anyway), > rather than going through us (obviously fallible) human abstraction machines. > Machine learning is an attempt at this. Teh *-omics are attempts at this. > Etc. And while it's (currently) true that such modeling efforts remain, in > general, less efficient and effective at building useful models, they are > making some progress. E.g. > https://www.news-medical.net/news/20180712/Study-suggests-database-analysis-better-predicts-toxicity-of-chemicals-than-animal-testing.aspx > > > > This reminds me of how some say that dogs don't have shame or dogs don't love > you, etc. that the head-hanging is just an empty learned behavior to get > along with humans. > Who says humans are any different? -- ☣ uǝlƃ ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
