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That article reminds me a lot this sentence from Daniel Benett : "How could a slow, mindless process build a thing that could build a thing that a slow mindless
by az09mugen 2y ago
That article reminds me a lot this sentence from Daniel Benett : "How could a slow, mindless process build a thing that could build a thing that a slow mindless process couldn't build on it's own ?"
Source : https://youtube.com/watch?v=TTFoJQSd48c https://youtube.com/watch?v=TTFoJQSd48c
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- gus_massa 2y agoWhen does he say that? Perhaps an easy example is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autocatalysis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autocatalysis
- az09mugen 2y agoThanks for the link, I didn't know about that. It's kind of in the autocatalysis way, but more about "memes" in the sense of the book which introduced the term "The selfish gene" by Richard Dawkins. He says it 2 times, it's what drives his speech : At the beginning : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTFoJQSd48c&t=259 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTFoJQSd48c&t=259 And at the end : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTFoJQSd48c&t=4540 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTFoJQSd48c&t=4540 That's a very nice and profound speech asking good questions.