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Well, someone could suggest that the bred-in knob is the stable feature in a larger evolutionary/ecological system in which the breed and individual organism are finer grained components entrained by the larger dynamic.  So by slicing out the organism's timescale from the evolutionary timescale, we're *not* being reductionist.  We're (somehow) allowing a logical layer of abstraction between the two granularities ... as if we could EVER talk about the organism without also talking about its evolutionary context.

On 1/16/19 3:07 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> I think of the "experience being with other people" as sort of like how my herding dog follows me from room to room.   There's a knob in her head that is set to keep a visual distance with her people.   It's what she expects and it comes from her breed.   It's not the result of a dynamical system that occurs has occurred on the timescale of her life.    It is a reductionist/thin/flat explanation for the dog and the basketball player and the choir singer.  


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