Daniel Dennett Dialogue
The Munk Debates Podcast
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The Slow Mindless Process of Natural Selection Is the Engine of So Much of Our Culture, Our Institutions
We are the first intelligent designers on the planet. And how can a non intelligent designer design and intelligent designer? That's the puzzle. I think I've got the rough draft of the solution. Yeah. Well, let's go. But yeah, in fact, there's a single sentence in my book which really sums up the question that I'm trying to answer. It's one of the great explanatory devices to understand why there isn't a civilization of dogs and that there is this dominant civilization of human beings. We evolved by a slow mindless process of natural selection. Then once we evolved, we became able to create another fast mindful process.
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