An ecology of mind6/27/2023 ![]() What is most serious about our assumption is that it makes us cut through the complete mental circuits and perceive (and then rely on) only short arcs of these, which we see as straight line linear causality. More probably, you will kill off the birds in the first round when they eat the poisoned insects. You will then have to use more DDT than before to kill the insects which the birds no longer eat. If you use DDT to kill insects, you may succeed in reducing the insect population so far that the insectivores will starve. ![]() Seeing only arcs of circuits, the individual is continually surprised and necessarily angered when his hardheaded policies return to plague the inventor. ![]() “Life depends upon interlocking circuits of contingency, while consciousness can see only such short arcs of such circuits as human purpose may direct. ![]()
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