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Fodor IV 139
Def Interpretation Theory/Dennett: thesis: beliefs, desires, etc. are not real (ontologically), but only epistemically useful concepts.
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Dennett I 520
"Tower of Generation and Testing"/Evolution/Consciousness/Dennett: for a summarizing realization the price of idealization has to be paid. On higher floors we become more efficient in finding new tracks.
The ground floor contains the
Def Darwinian creatures: (hard wired) that fly out of the test.
On the first floor:
Baldwin effect: "Plasticity of the phenotype": at birth not completely like the ancestors.
Second floor:
Def Skinnerian creatures: try blind, reinforcement, next time the creature chooses the right one.
Third floor:
Def Popperian creatures: have an inner, selected environment, they act foresighted the first time, not coincidentally.

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