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From: "Vincent Campbell" <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk>
I don't see, however, how guns, or gun use could be genetically
determined (surely, even if it was, then mistaking a banana for a gun would
be rather non-adaptive :-)).
"mistaking" a banana for a gun isn't the same as pretending that it is a gun.
In play, the banana is adapted for use as something it's not.
--J. R.
Useless hypotheses:
consciousness, phlogiston, philosophy, vitalism, mind, free will, qualia,
analog computing, cultural relativism
Everything that can happen has already happened, not just once,
but an infinite number of times, and will continue to do so forever.
(Everything that can happen = more than anyone can imagine.)
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