Message from @Neuron Cortex
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The authors' central argument against the concept of natural selection is what they call "the problem of selection-for".[7] An extension of Gould and Lewontin's concept of spandrels, the authors note that certain traits of organisms always come together. The authors give examples:
A heart both pumps blood and makes heart-like noises [8]
A frog both snaps at flies and snaps at ambient black nuisances [9]
A polar bear is both white and camouflaged against its environment [10]
Because these traits come together, they are both correlated with fitness. Therefore, Fodor and Piattelli-Palmarini argue that the theory of natural selection "cannot predict/explain what traits the creatures in a population are selected-for",[11] and so "the claim that selection is the mechanism of evolution cannot be true".[12]
Another way the authors put the same point is as follows: If the mechanism of natural selection (as it is currently formulated) is correct, then it is a paradigm example of intensional causation. Intensional causation requires either (1) there be a mind involved in the causal process, or (2) the causal mechanism has access to nomological laws. Since there is neither (1) nor (2) at the biological level, the theory of natural selection cannot be correct.
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@Deleted User They deny you 3 times anyway regardless
So basically n word fine, n word used to break tos bad
Ahh got it
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