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Episode 64: From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The evolution of minds

If biological evolution gave us the hardware (our brains), cultural evolution gave us the software. Dennett leans heavily on the concept of —units of cultural information that replicate and evolve just like genes. From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution o...

Just as Darwin showed that nature can "design" a wing without a designer, and Turing showed a computer can "calculate" without knowing math, Dennett argues that most of life operates on competence without comprehension . Episode 64: From Bacteria to Bach and Back:

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