Re: the pseudoscience of evolutionary psychology?

Posted by Nick Thompson on Feb 22, 2018; 9:22pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/the-pseudoscience-of-evolutionary-psychology-tp7591207p7591275.html

Glen,

Can you give me a model of causality your happy with, or do you avoid causal talk, generally?

N

Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/


-----Original Message-----
From: Friam [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of u?l? ?
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2018 10:39 AM
To: FriAM <[hidden email]>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] the pseudoscience of evolutionary psychology?


Neither, obviously.  The proximal cause of sneezing is a complex of neuro-muscular behaviors.  That complex has an untold number of triggers, from bright lights and sound to tickling.  Any competent analysis of such causation will focus on the *bottleneck*, which is the neuro-muscular complex, not the huge number of triggers.

On 02/22/2018 09:22 AM, Nick Thompson wrote:
> Is sneezing caused by dust OR by the forceful expulsion of air through
> our nasal tracts?  We would never ask such a question, right?

--
☣ 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


============================================================
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