PSYC 050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Rationality, Steven Pinker, Proximate And Ultimate Causation
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The idea that our mental life is the product of a physical brain. The other notion is the origin of biological and psychological phenomena. Paley gives example of walking down beach and hitting a rock. Paley said it is not satisfying to say it was always there. They both contain multitudes of parts that interact in ways to do interesting things. Both have lenses that bend light and project image on a light sensitive surface. For a camera, its diaphragm. they are both encased in black. The difference is the eye is more complicated than the camera. The complexity of biological world suggests these things are complicated artifacts created by god. If you find complicated artifacts, you don"t assume they emerged by accident, but by an intelligent being. Body parts like eye didn"t emerge all of a sudden but had parallels within other existing animals and across human history.
