Agree somewhat though I think lack of confusion (already knowing) can go too far as well. Wanted to add that per Quine and later analyzed by Nozick, we seem to be homeostatic envelope extenders. That is, we start with maintaining homeostasis (which gets complex due to cognitive arms race social species stuff) and then add on being able to reason about things far from their original context in time and space and try to extend our homeostatic abilities to new contexts and increase their robustness over arbitrary timelines, locations, conditions.
And it seems arthrodiatomic (cutting across joints, i.e. non-joint-carving) to describe the envelope-extension process itself as being an instance of homeostasis.
Agree somewhat though I think lack of confusion (already knowing) can go too far as well. Wanted to add that per Quine and later analyzed by Nozick, we seem to be homeostatic envelope extenders. That is, we start with maintaining homeostasis (which gets complex due to cognitive arms race social species stuff) and then add on being able to reason about things far from their original context in time and space and try to extend our homeostatic abilities to new contexts and increase their robustness over arbitrary timelines, locations, conditions.
And it seems arthrodiatomic (cutting across joints, i.e. non-joint-carving) to describe the envelope-extension process itself as being an instance of homeostasis.
Can you give pointers to where Quine and Nozick talk about this?
I mostly got this from Nozick’s final book Invariances