[p2p-research] Intelligent People Have "Unnatural" Preferences And Values That Are Novel In...

[Ryan Lanham]

On 3/2/10, j.martin.pedersen <m.pedersen at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:
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> in complete agreement!
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> also, for what it is worth - monogamy, in Euro-American culture, is in
> great part an aspect of an authoritarian institution called the
> christian church...



I see the offense, and I tend to concur on all the points listed.

I was personally interested in the teleology angle of the article.
Evolution and teleology always intrigue me since Stephen Jay Gould was so
effective at debunking any sort of teleology in natural systems.

Intelligence, by definition, would be not normal.  Any measure on a spectrum
that labels any portion of that spectrum implies a bias on that spectrum
from "standard."  It makes no sense to have a word like "tall" and then call
tall "normal."

What the article really says is that abnormal correlates with abnormal--if
one buys the embedded biases.  That is sort of interesting because it even
further debunks the neatness of any sort of teleological arguments about
evolution.  Causality is always a problem with multi-variate systems.  More
and more things are seemingly multivariate in causality (e.g. diseases).  Of
course complexity theory people have been saying this for some time.
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