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The limitless potential of human knowledge | David Deutsch

The TED Interview

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The Evolution of Explanatory Knowledge

Hominid minds evolved the ability to mimic each other hundreds of thousands of years ago. This created a replication process that was massively faster than traditional reproduction, and allowed multiple things to be explored. It tisis what richard dawkins calls meams. W evolve cultural knowledge, which is meams instead of genes, and they can evolve thousands of times faster.

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