
Minds Memes & Windsurfing - Daniel Dennett
Human Centered
Understanding Is Not the Beginning, It's the End
Darwin and Turing have discovered something truly unsettled with settling to a human mind competence without comprehension. A bacterium may competently move the right direction in order to obtain nutrients or to escape from a toxic element. The nerves that send signals from your retina to your visual cortex, they don't know what the heck they're doing, but they're tremendously competent. They send messages which are coded and decoded by decoders that themselves don't have to understand what they're doing. Our kind of understanding is not the beginning. It's the very most recent chapter. If we don't use it better, it will be the last chapter. We have an understanding that no other creature on
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