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Xiaohui Yu1, Peter Carruthers1
1Department of Philosophy, The University of Maryland, Maryland, USA xhyu@umd.edu pcarruth@umd.eduhttps://faculty.philosophy.umd.edu/pcarruthers/.
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The target article conflates simple ("System 1") model-based decision-making with reflective/imaginative ("System 2") sorts. We show that most species of fish are capable of the former, which seems all that would be necessary for slow ventral-system-like vision to evolve. Since land-based predator-avoidance, too, may require only the former, there is no sharp distinction between aquatic and land-based life-forms.
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