Richard Dawkins on TED Talks
Richard Dawkins on TED Talks
By posting a link to a video, I'm stretching the meaning of "Readings" for this blog.
An entertaining 22 minute video on why the universe is queerer than we *can* suppose. As an evolutionary biologist, Dawkins thinks that we have been naturally selected to function well in the middle world, where things are approximately a few magnitudes larger or smaller than we are. Our experience and expertise is limited to a narrow band of objects and sense data, because those have been the most useful to human survival.
All this makes me think of that age-old quandary - that 'we' are approximately metre long units with these ideas, but are there smaller components within us (or larger conglomerations of units like us) that have a corresponding consciousness at a different level?
By posting a link to a video, I'm stretching the meaning of "Readings" for this blog.
An entertaining 22 minute video on why the universe is queerer than we *can* suppose. As an evolutionary biologist, Dawkins thinks that we have been naturally selected to function well in the middle world, where things are approximately a few magnitudes larger or smaller than we are. Our experience and expertise is limited to a narrow band of objects and sense data, because those have been the most useful to human survival.
All this makes me think of that age-old quandary - that 'we' are approximately metre long units with these ideas, but are there smaller components within us (or larger conglomerations of units like us) that have a corresponding consciousness at a different level?
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