Evolution, Culture and Truth

"Well, it seemed a good idea at the time" - Dennett (not Socrates) on the Ideal and Perfect Knowledge— i.e. on language and on memes as a mode of fitness enhancement and bootstrapping by refining our knowledge.  And on the dange of toxic ideas and their spread in the contemporary informational ecosystem.


 



And "Breaking the Spell"—another Dennett lecture on religion as a mental virus:






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Darwin's Strange Inversion of Reasoning