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Daniel Dennett on Tools To Transform Our Thinking

Intelligence Squared

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The Great Crowbar of Thought

We humans have grown in population technology and intelligence to a position of terrible power. And we have the same genes that our ancestors 10,000 years ago had. It's not genetic. It's thinking tools that have made this all possible - which raises a chicken egg problem. Did evolved tools make us smarter? Or did we evolve to become smart enough to make tools?

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