Induction and Critical Rationalism

[Elliot]

@LMD

@actually_thinking

Genes knowing how to instruct proteins to fold and knowledge of how to hit a flop shot are completely different in that one is encoded and the other is learned through experience.

I don’t agree that that distinction is fundamental. Sure, you’re born with a gene to do x, and you later learn how to do a flop shot after you’re born. That’s a difference. But I think the process that creates each piece of knowledge is the same. The issue is whether evolution is or isn’t the process that underlies their creation.

I think your response here could be better.

What’s being analyzed here is CR’s position. And there is a claim of a difference which brings up two issues to compare two things. The claim seems to be that the answer is different between the two things for both issues. So you should consider what CR says about each issue for each thing (four total evaluations). Like this:

According to CR, is genetic knowledge encoded?
According to CR, is genetic knowledge learned through experience?
According to CR, is human knowledge encoded?
According to CR, is human knowledge learned through experience?