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How Do We Get From Electrons To Elections And From Protons To Presidents?

My Car And My Adding Machine Understand Nothing: They Are Not In That Line Of Business

Darwin's Greatest Achievement Was To Show That The Appearance Of Purpose, Planning, Teleology (design), And Intentionality In The Origin And Development Of Human And Animal Species Was Entirely An Illusion. The Illusion Could Be Explained By Evolutionary Processes That Contained No Such Purpose At All. But The Spread Of Ideas Through Imitation Required The Whole Apparatus Of Human Consciousness And Intentionality

I Want To Block Some Common Misunderstandings About "understanding": In Many Of These Discussions One Finds A Lot Of Fancy Footwork About The Word "understanding."

Well, What Does "good" Mean Anyway? As Wittgenstein Suggested, "good," Like "game," Has A Family Of Meanings. Prominent Among Them Is This One: "meets The Criteria Or Standards Of Assessment Or Evaluation."