Ep137 - Daniel Dennett | From Bacteria to Bach and Back
Talks at Google
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The Problem That Culture Solves Is the Problem That Is Solved
How do we get intelligent design with representation of reasons, out of 86 billion mindless nurants? And that was the second great ando symbiotic revolution. We are apes with infected brains. Our brains have been colonized by all of these viral like things. The virus isn't alive, but it evolves. Some people think viruses are alive. You can argue about that. Viroids, at least, aren't. What are they? A virus is a string of nucleic acid with attitude. It just happens to have a shape that gives it the competence to provoke its own replication under many circumstances. They don't have to understand this. This is just the secret of their success
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