NotSuspicious

There are a lot of things like this popping up in genetics research these days.

I don't know why people in general hold so tightly onto this notion that humans are 200k-300k years old. It's very obvious from the evidence that humans have been around for ~2 million years and that around 200k-300k years ago a set of genes were selected for that were quite good at spreading around the entire human world (while still maintaining a significant degree of admixture with humans who were already there).

It's honestly kind of insulting. It would be like if people looked at the genetics of Australia, discovered that there were no "pureblood" aboriginals anymore and declared that humans arrived on the continent with James Cook. Not only would it be factually incorrect, but it would deeply bias any possible study of australian aboriginal life.

I could brashly say the exact opposite and would have proven just as much as you. Fictionalists often attempt to shunt the Platonic realm into an ill-conceived emanation of the mental realm (which just so happens to itself be an accident of matter). Somehow all of this works by virtue of following a kind of mathematical logic that just so happens to not exist or something. I suspect the fundamental problem here is some kind of neurosis that psychologically compels people to reduce the quality of their thought until hard problems disappear. I hope we one day are able to build a catalog of all the ways thought goes wrong so as to prevent such nonsense from proliferating in at least some section of the world.

I think a reasonably compelling way to teach yourself how to actually see The Problem (tm) is to view it from the perspective of Roger Penrose's three worlds ( https://hrstraub.ch/en/the-theory-of-the-three-worlds-penros... ) and actually think through the implications in a contemplative, meditative way over the course of several hours. Any analysis of this issue that doesn't involve a sustained look at both logic and phenomenology is a waste of time.

It's fascinating how sample size differs based on who wants what policy to be enacted. What are the false arrest rates due to people just looking at a picture and thinking "That's the one"?

It actually requires more because there are numerous documented cases of the dead coming back to life within certain religious ontologies whereas cryonics is only a potential resurrection in the future with no precursor. Imagine a Christian doctrine of the Resurrection of the Dead without the Empty Tomb.