I’d be careful about making claims concerning what low-level systems we have no introspective access to can or cannot multiply.
I think I didn’t get my point across successfully here. I’m not making any claims about whether some low-level system can or can’t multiply, but instead saying that it’s not trying to multiply in the first place.
In other words, it’s likely wrong to believe that we wouldn’t have scope insensitivity, if only evolution could have come up with a way to make some subsystem do multiplication correctly. If that were the reason for scope insensitivity, then it would make sense to think of it as a simple arithmetical error.
I think I didn’t get my point across successfully here. I’m not making any claims about whether some low-level system can or can’t multiply, but instead saying that it’s not trying to multiply in the first place.
In other words, it’s likely wrong to believe that we wouldn’t have scope insensitivity, if only evolution could have come up with a way to make some subsystem do multiplication correctly. If that were the reason for scope insensitivity, then it would make sense to think of it as a simple arithmetical error.
Does that help make my point clearer?