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Matt Ridley on the Evolution of Everything

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The Evolution of Design Elegance

"Why aren't we sweeping the world? Why isn't free market capitalism the dominant economic system?" "We have a reflex assumption when we see something that it was designed, created, or planned rather than emergent and spontaneous. So we imbue intentionality to things that clearly can't have intentionality," he says. 'I think Dan Dennett gets closest to cracking this'

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