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Peterdjones comments on Exclude the supernatural? My worldview is up for grabs. - Less Wrong Discussion

24 Post author: r_claypool 25 June 2011 03:46AM

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Comment author: Peterdjones 26 June 2011 02:51:11PM 3 points [-]

Put another way, that minds were preceded by some evolutionary process is questionable, or contingent and trivial if "true". Given the latter interpretation, pointing out that human minds evolved is just the genetic fallacy. Given the former interpretation, though, the latter can conceivably be called the teleological fallacy. Dissolving the debate requires resolving the inherent logical uncertainty, and that is a little trickier than some seem to think.

I didn't follow that.