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Dennett was talking about natural intelligence. I think you're just underestimating the potential of a sufficiently big bag of tricks.

sharing knowledge isn't a human thing - chimps learn from each other. bees teach each other the direction and distance to a new source of food.

we just happen to push the envelope a lot further and managed to kickstart runaway mimetic evolution.

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"mimetic" is apt there, but I think that Dennett, as a friend of Dawkins, would say it's "memetic"

exe34OP1y ago

nice catch!

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"mimetic" is apt there, but I think that Dennett, as a friend of Dawkins, would say it's "memetic"

exe34OP1y ago

nice catch!

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