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Episode 235: Animated Objects

Very Bad Wizards

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Is Animism the Best Explanation for All These Reports From Isolated Societies?

i'm surprised that it's in the australasian journal. I think part of the problem is he doesn't really identify it as an inference to the best explanation argument, which is clearly what it is. And i agree, ik, but it doesn't have to be that somebody has recorded it. Or, you know, there are other things that can hold you back besides just like perevew journal and mechanical turk survey. But no, here's where a hundred % agree with you. We're not exactly sure what we're trying to explain here, because it's like we don't know yet the thing to be explained,. What those beliefs are in more detail

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