Is It Possible That as Children, We're All Natural Newtons?

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The idea that once something starts moving, it carries on would come absolutely naturally to us if we'd been brought up in the space station. To conceive of it, it's almost like, then, have a long discussion in your book about nothing, what nothing means. So just for example, to say, imagine what its like to be dead. You can't do it. People think, well, there i am In my casket and people are mourning or whatever. Yes, thate would interesting. Well, we're going to run that experiment, aren't we? We're going to have a ouk permanent space stations and people going into space, and then children and,. but

In episode 205, Michael Shermer speaks with Richard Dawkins, the author of The Selfish Gene, voted The Royal Society’s Most Inspiring Science Book of All Time, and also the bestsellers The Blind Watchmaker, Climbing Mount Improbable, The Ancestor’s Tale, The God Delusion, and two volumes of autobiography, An Appetite for Wonder and Brief Candle in the Dark. He is a Fellow of New College, Oxford and both the Royal Society and the Royal Society of Literature. In 2013, Dawkins was voted the world’s top thinker in Prospect magazine’s poll of 10,000 readers from over 100 countries.

This episode is heavily edited because Dawkins was having trouble with his voice, and Shermer tried to speak a little more to give Dawkins a chance to let his voice rest.