I Can't Get Myself to See the Two People Faced as the Same Size

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Fodorian modularity can only make sense from the intentional stands of respect, he says. To say that your computer can't tell whatever how the graphics are being processed is just a weird thing to say. And so it justt makes no sense to divide up the computer into the central and th the other stuff. We're not as naturally inclined to do that with computers as we are.

David and Tamler talk about the often rancorous debate among cognitive scientists and evolutionary psychologists over whether the mind is modular -- composed of discrete systems responsible for vision, reasoning, cheater detection, sexual jealousy, and so on. David and Tamler (mostly David) describe the history of the debate, then dive into a recent paper (Pietraszewski & Wertz, 2021) arguing that virtually all the disagreement is the product of a conceptual and methodological confusion â€“ that the two sides are operating with different levels of analysis and talking past each other as a result.

Plus, we REALLY tried not to talk about the University of Austin thing for the whole opening segment. We had another topic lined up and everything. It just didnâ€™t work out. Cicero would understand. Bari Weiss stans might wanna skip to the main segment.