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“sometimes selection is like kissing”

Shapiro, Larry, and Elliott Sober. 2007. “Epiphenomenalism—The Do’s and the Don’ts”, in Peter Machamer and Gereon Wolters (Ed.), Studies in Causality: Historical and Contemporary, University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh. [PDF]

A story is told of Igor Stravinsky, who was getting increasingly irritated by a talkative man in the train seat alongside him. When the man, after describing his young wife in glowing terms, reached into his pocket and pulled a wallet-sized photograph of her; Stravinsky cupped the photo in both hands, and then remarked “She [...]