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Daniel C. Dennett _ Intuition Pumps and Other
The case of the frogs is simply an artificially clear instance of what happens in natural selection all the time: exaptation-
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Daniel C. Dennett _ Intuition Pumps and Other
This is natural selection, plain as day: the islanders have a simple rule: if it returns from the sea intact, copy it! They may have considerable comprehension of the principles of naval architecture that retrospectively endorse their favorite designs, but it is strictly unnecessary.
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Daniel C. Dennett _ Intuition Pumps and Other
Anything that is usefully and voluminously predictable from the intentional stance is, by definition, an intentional system, and as we shall see, many fascinating and complicated things that don't have brains or eyes or ears or hands, and hence really don't have minds, are nevertheless intentional systems. Folk psychology's basic trick, that is to say, has some bonus applications outside the world of human interactions.
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Daniel C. Dennett _ Intuition Pumps and Other
It turns out that all the "magic" of cognition depends, just as life itself does, on cycles within cycles of recurrent, "re-entrant," reflexive information-transformation processes
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Daniel C. Dennett _ Intuition Pumps and Other
Real magic, in other words, refers to the magic that is not real, while the magic that is real, that can actually be done, is not real magic.
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