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Daniel Dennett: Evolution is a strange inverson of reasoning

posted by BicycleRepairMan 8 months 3 weeks ago • 939 views
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Why do we love cake? What makes babies so cute? Philosopher Dan Dennett looks into these surprisingly deep questions -- in a short talk that might change the way you think about things that are cute, sweet, sexy and funny.

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“In the theory with which we have to deal, Absolute Ignorance is the artificer; so that we may enunciate as the fundamental principle of the whole system, that IN ORDER TO MAKE A PERFECT AND BEAUTIFUL MACHINE, IT IS NOT REQUISITE TO KNOW HOW TO MAKE IT. This proposition will be found, on careful examination, to express, in condensed form, the essential purport of the Theory, and to express in a few words all Mr. Darwin's meaning; who, by a strange inversion of reasoning, seems to think Absolute Ignorance fully qualified to take the place of Absolute Wisdom in all the achievements of creative skill.”

--Robert Beverley MacKenzie, 1868


written by rougy  | 8 months 3 weeks ago | CH
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hmmm, it seems tome that mister Dennetts "Preferer" is something like George Bushes "Decider".
AS for me, I still love cake because it tastes good, even if nobody made it...


written by bluecliff  | 8 months 2 weeks ago | CH
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And those girls were pretty damn inherently sexy! Great example.


written by MaxWilder  | 8 months 2 weeks ago | CH
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