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                                             October 20, 2009

                           http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_dawkins_on_our_queer_universe.html

A TED talk by Richard Dawkins:

   A little dull, but with a nice one-two finish
   (sneaking up on one of his common themes):


      He talks about how it doesn't make any
      practical sense to deal with human
      beings as though they're physical
      objects-- our brains are evolved to do
      intuitive psychological evaluation, we
      swim in a sea of social interaction, so
      that's how we tend to look at the world,
      occasionally overapplying it to
      personify the behavior of computers or
      cars or... "as millions of deluded
      people do with the universe as a whole".


      He then closes on his grand question,
      have we evolved brains so flexible that
      we can reason our way out of the box of
      our evolved tendencies?



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