#62 — Anyway, Michael Tomasello was mentioned in your link on Chomsky: here is a great paper on T’s work that I think you might find interesting…
I read it, thanks. Interesting. I’ve seen other such over the years. Doesn’t seem to me that the good Dr is really saying much other than arguing that sentience is an emergent property. This all seems quite consistent to me.
#62 — -but Darwin had many good reasons to anticipate genetics; you have yet to offer yours for believing that the biological explains the cultural…
Emergent property? Doesn’t seem to require explaining. I’ll visit your site and we can talk more.
#63 Chuck — Can we all point our rifles, metaphorically speaking for now, at the subject of this article? ?
Depends on what you think it says. Reads like old testament smiting prelude to me. e.g. wicked secular Europe and so on, caving in to the muslims.
Solway: would that be the same France that seems clever enough to have already anticipated and solved their energy problem by having over 80% of their energy derived from nuclear power? They’re bright enough to create nuke plants but too stupid to grasp the idea that maybe just maybe the muslims might be bad guys? You have to believe a lot that just ain’t so to buy the premise of this article.
