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225 | Michael Tomasello on The Social Origins of Cognition and Agency
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Squirrel and the Agent
I'm fascinated by the idea of goals as they appear here because it again, and I don't have a strong feeling about what to say. We remember the past and we causally influence the future. When was the first time that we could have attributed to species or an organism the idea that there is a concept of what I am aiming for? In the book, I punt on some of the, on exactly when that might happen. People who wanted to deny free will are essentially taking a kind of a physics assist view of psychology.
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