Ball notes that the Journey of the Mind authors’ (phantom) reductionist revolution relies on a single cognitive scientist’s work. It’s not that he thinks it’s a terrible book. But he supposes (unusually in this area) that critical standards matter and that he should apply them.
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“Darwin’s heir” E. O. Wilson remembered for ants; his sociobiology is sidelined
Had Wilson’s career begun fifty years later, it would have been quickly and fatally Woked.
Eric Holloway: Why engineering can’t be reduced to the laws of physics
He argues that the problem how to account for innovation cannot be solved by anything built upon the laws of physics.