Koira ja robotti

Asiaa sivuten, Michael Graziano on kirjoittanut siitä miten ihmisillä(kin) on luontainen taipumus kuvitella elollista ja tietoista sinnekin missä sitä ei ole, ja jumalharhat voivat olla tuon taipumuksen sivuvaikutusta:

"humans have a hair-trigger tendency to attribute consciousness to everything around us. We attribute consciousness to characters in a story, puppets and dolls, storms, rivers, empty spaces, ghosts and gods. Justin Barrett called it the Hyperactive Agency Detection Device, or HADD. One speculation is that it’s better to be safe than sorry. If the wind rustles the grass and you misinterpret it as a lion, no harm done. But if you fail to detect an actual lion, you’re taken out of the gene pool. To me, however, the HADD goes way beyond detecting predators. It’s a consequence of our hyper-social nature. Evolution turned up the amplitude on our tendency to model others and now we’re supremely attuned to each other’s mind states. It gives us our adaptive edge. The inevitable side effect is the detection of false positives, or ghosts."

http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/06/how-consciousness-evolved/485558/

utti kirjoitti:

Asiaa sivuten, Michael Graziano on kirjoittanut siitä miten ihmisillä(kin) on luontainen taipumus kuvitella elollista ja tietoista sinnekin missä sitä ei ole, ja jumalharhat voivat olla tuon taipumuksen sivuvaikutusta:

"humans have a hair-trigger tendency to attribute consciousness to everything around us. We attribute consciousness to characters in a story, puppets and dolls, storms, rivers, empty spaces, ghosts and gods. Justin Barrett called it the Hyperactive Agency Detection Device, or HADD. One speculation is that it’s better to be safe than sorry. If the wind rustles the grass and you misinterpret it as a lion, no harm done. But if you fail to detect an actual lion, you’re taken out of the gene pool. To me, however, the HADD goes way beyond detecting predators. It’s a consequence of our hyper-social nature. Evolution turned up the amplitude on our tendency to model others and now we’re supremely attuned to each other’s mind states. It gives us our adaptive edge. The inevitable side effect is the detection of false positives, or ghosts."

http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/06/how-consciousness-evolved/485558/

Lue lisää

Onhan esim. Boyer ja Dennett tuoneet tuota ajatusta esille jo yli 20 vuotta. Toi HADD tuo ehkä sitten astetta enemmän neurologista näkökulmaa verratuna aiempiin evoluutiopsykologisiin hypoteeseihin.

"mutta aikuiset evokit pitävät sitä elottomana limaklönttinä"

Ultimate straw man?