
Ep 163: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 8 ”The Significance of Life” Part 2
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Can You Take Your Appendix Out Without Much Trouble?
Dawkins and Gould can come together to say that genes are being selected for. The gene is just doing what it can to be replicated, whether or not it helps out the species. Can we use evolution to predict what the color of dinosaurs would be? Given we know the colors of some dinosaurs, let's say, if we have one that we don't know the color, I just say, well, personally, I don't know," he says.
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