I have heard before that a person who currently holds a very high position within the EA movement predicted that it would fail precisely because of this lower level of connection that intensional movements have versus extensional ones. That person sure is glad now that they were wrong. It is much easier to grip an extensional movement to the ground, so to speak.
EA now has traction, as long as we don’t push the breaks, let’s use it’s momentum.
The difficulty of finding intensional movements is related to some cognitive abilities. Science and philosophy took long to evolve though saints, religions and spirits are cheap. I recommend in particular “The prehistory of the mind” by Stephen Mithen to get a grasp of why levels of intentionality are one of the newest characteristics the human mind is able to entertain, and not all human minds are equally good at it. It is connected to levels of intensionality.
I have heard before that a person who currently holds a very high position within the EA movement predicted that it would fail precisely because of this lower level of connection that intensional movements have versus extensional ones. That person sure is glad now that they were wrong. It is much easier to grip an extensional movement to the ground, so to speak. EA now has traction, as long as we don’t push the breaks, let’s use it’s momentum.
The difficulty of finding intensional movements is related to some cognitive abilities. Science and philosophy took long to evolve though saints, religions and spirits are cheap. I recommend in particular “The prehistory of the mind” by Stephen Mithen to get a grasp of why levels of intentionality are one of the newest characteristics the human mind is able to entertain, and not all human minds are equally good at it. It is connected to levels of intensionality.