Ep137 - Daniel Dennett | From Bacteria to Bach and Back
Talks at Google
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What Is the Source of Our Power and Versatility?
Cultural evolution the process of natural selection of cultural items, design thinking tools that impose novel structures on our brains. Our basic mammalian brains are like a computer without even an operating systemor with only a rudimentary operating system. And then we pile in the aps. And many aps depend on other apts, which depend on other aps. And in the end, you have a multi competent entity that can do things that the bare brain can't do by itself. That's the power, the source of our power and versatility.
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