Dear list,

  I spent some time this morning crafting a draft of a blog on What Makes Us Different. It ended up being a bit more expanded than I originally anticipated. My original focus was to paint the ToK/JH picture. But what emerged was a five page summary of the “puzzle pieces” of our uniqueness, drawn from the Sept 2018 Scientific American special issue that Joe shared. In reading through it, I decided it was good way to summarize the current state of knowledge of the puzzle pieces that make us different.

 

  I am sharing it here because I think it is a great topic for our list. I would welcome any suggestions or recommendations or additions.

 

  If we as a group have a sense of these puzzle pieces, then I think discussion about the central missing piece, the Justification Hypothesis (framed by the ToK metaphysical definitional system and the BIT formulation of the evolution of the animal mind) can be productively had.

Best,

Gregg