Sunday, February 17, 2013
Lynch Does Not Parallel Donnovan
Lynch parallels Donnovan when he speaks on page 4 of his article about the intelligent economy of humans and compares it to animals. By addressing the fact that within our own species we tend to misunderstand each other, Lynch hopes to show that we can't even understand other species. If we can't understand our nature we can't understand anything outside of it. This is where Lynch is different from Donnovan. Quantitative data is limited to the external and that is our medium used to make assumptions about animals that are not necessarily true.
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This is true, Lynch does not parallel Donovan in this aspect. The Intelligent Economy of Humans is a fascinating idea. it is very true that we cannot even fully understand each other as human beings, so why do we treat animals so differently, there must be a better reason. However, as I just blogged about, it seems Lynch is making claims that cannot be proven or disproven, and this seems somewhat dangerous.
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