It's self-explanatory what sort of person he represents himself to be.
(And, if those neurons are standard issue, then they can't be very explanatory of what we mean by empathy: Bernie Madoff would have as many as Nelson Mandela).
The first premise of the inference is, as Cobb's foreword emphasizes, that the activity of living things is causally relevant and explanatory of what happens; in opposition, genetic mutations often follow on changed behavior: 'the accumulation of random mutations in genes - the editors write in the introduction - is neither the only source of evolutionary novelty nor the major sources' (p. 3).
Our actual felt experiences of reverential respect play a significant role in some of these explanatory accounts; what justifies accepting our experience of respect for humans (or other beings) as grounds for an obligation is its coherence with our other moral beliefs (Buss 1999, Margalit 1996, Gibbard 1990).
b. section 3.1 : MHMM is not described well: we see a mix of introductory references on general HMMs, of more specialized references that may be telling something relevant but we do not know that, and cat's cradle pictures which are not self-explanatory (and what about these mu parameters?).
In the latter case, whether a fact is a candidate explanans depends on our explanatory interests and/or what we happen to understand, so whether some facts bear an explanatory relation to others depends in part on these factors as well (van Fraassen 1980: Ch. 5).
What explanatory theory can possibly account for it?
What explanatory mechanism does Lehrer really bring to his inventors and jazz musicians by citing the aSTG and the DLPFC as neural correlates of insight and inhibition?
Here's an explanatory video showing what exactly is going on.
To see this, he suggests, we should think about what explanatory irrelevance involves.
What explanatory role is left for the material processes involved in the natural process?
