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An anonymous reader writes "As more and more games move away from 60fps, the myth of the human eye only being able to detect 30fps keeps popping up. What's more, most people don't seem to realize the numerous advantages of a high framerate, and there's plenty of those."
The human mind is evolutionary designed to make instant assumptions.
I feel nitpicky, today. Either call the human mind evolutionary or designed. Evolution has no design and cannot design. If you do believe in evolutionary theory, then at best, evolution perhaps "fashioned" it, but it did not "design" it. To try to logically squish together evolutionary theory and some form of design will either elevate "evolution" to what it isn't and shouldn't be or degrade the word "design" to mean what it doesn't. Well, all the definitions I've seen so far, anyways. Accidents are not designed, and natural processes do not design. Nature does not design. Yes, nature does "fashion" things, but not design.
I guess I'm trying to say that if you think the human mind is amazing enough to be "designed" and yet refuse to recognize there was any form of intelligence behind that design, I'd say that something strange is happening in your logic somewhere... and if you're not using "design" as in something that was planned out before it happened, then choose a different word :)
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As far as communication goes, he scored perfectly.
Yes, he did. To me, he expressed that he wants to think about the human mind as being designed and working "as designed" and all those sorts of things, while at the same time maintaining that there is no God (or "designer" if you will, but I dislike saying that for some reason, seems trivial :)).
Otherwise, he would have simply said "designed." To put "evolutionary" in front of it seems to imply that this thought process, to me:
Which, I maintain, does not make sense. If the evidence of a design supports the idea of an intelligence behind it, than simply attributing it to something that cannot design because it is a random and natural process does not change anything... but it does appear to soothe the logical error in many people's minds, I guess?
I think it's pretty obvious what he really wanted to say. He wanted to say that the human mind evidences a design and he wanted to argue from that design and yet deny the existence of God. Which is interesting, because that aspect of "design" and the idea that there must be someone or something that designed it or planned it or is sustaining it, therefore we can extrapolate from it and assume that laws of nature/physics will continue to be the way they are is an argument for the existence of a Deity that many scientists in the past used... and is one of the reasons I think a - I feel open-minded today - Theistic worldview is one that encourages science, not discourages it.
Hybrid engines are such a waist!! why do so many people promote the BS that they are in some way better. They are a piss poor electric engine and an even crappier combustion engine. They are even a bad financial decision since buying a civic or corolla which both get 35mpg or better each for about half the cost of a comparable hybrid. Go diesel, pure electric, or economy car; but please, please don't buy a hybrid, they are such a waist and a horrible fad.