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Are We Living in a Dark Age? Bret Speaks with Steve Patterson

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Is It a Mind Virus or an Extended Penotype?

It could be the case that when you read the work of richard dawkins, you are seeing an actually impressive a idea structure. And then we make this inference that the impressive idea structure comes from a mind that must be generally competent in creating these idea structures. But i'm not sure it's the case that being really, really good on that one thing translates generally, which is shocking. O kiis beautiful, because i actually have in this. The disagreement between dawkins and me centred around the question of what to do with religion and things that behave like it. It might be that part of what's going on here is a high level of conceptual ability in specific domains

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