Synopsis:
- Immune system as a Darwinian system
- The immune system routinely manufactures all the antibodies it will ever need
- When the body is attacked by foreign antigens some antibodies are selected
- A concept chosen by the environment among a pre-existing array of concepts
- Mind manufactures chaotic mental events that the environment orders into thought
- Socrates: all learning consists in being reminded of what we already know
- The genes encode a "library". The environment picks up a specific book
- The mind already knows the solution to all the problems that can occur in the environment in which it evolved over millions of years
- The mind knows what to do, but it is the environment that selects what it actually does
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