That’s a great answer to GP’s question!

It's also nonsense. (Swimming and thinking are both human capabilities, not solutions to problems.)

But of course here we are back in the endless semantic debate about what "thinking" is, exactly to the GP's (and Edsger Dijkstra's) point.

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handfuloflight 3 days ago | parent [-]

Swimming and thinking being 'human capabilities' doesn't preclude them from also being solutions to evolutionary problems: aquatic locomotion and adaptive problem solving, respectively.

And pointing out that we're in a 'semantic debate' while simultaneously insisting on your own semantic framework (capabilities vs solutions) is exactly the move you're critiquing.

	▲	DavidPiper 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		> And pointing out that we're in a 'semantic debate' while simultaneously insisting on your own semantic framework (capabilities vs solutions) is exactly the move you're critiquing. I know, that's the point I'm making.