Comment by Marcio_RPS_Baraco on Anthropomorphic Optimism · 2008-08-05T01:34:37.000Z · LW · GW

And yet, you keep using computation metaphors to talk about brains: "preference ordering", "solution space", "relative to goals", and so on. If you are criticizing a given attitude, shouldn't you avoid it? And given your own biases, should you really be so demeaning to the collective-evolution proponents? Sorry, but it smells like you are predicting the downfall of their theories after the fact.