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Information, Evolution, and intelligent Design - With Daniel Dennett

The Royal Institution · 586.1K views · 2015-05-13 · 1:01:45

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Daniel Dennett gives a Royal Institution talk toward a unified theory of information, tying together evolution, learning and engineering. He argues that design can arise bottom-up through small steps without a designer.

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Recommended for its account of competence without comprehension, relevant to evolution and to debates about AI.

Recommended by 3 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2017–2024

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badosu · 2017-05 · Strong recommendation

I highly recommend this Royal Institute talk: Information, Evolution, and intelligent Design - With Daniel Dennett [0]. The presenter provides a series of small steps in the way of understanding how the combined leaps of 'dumb' evolution was able to design intelligence. He contrasts the 'bottom-up' approach to the 'top-down' design in a very intelligent manner. [0]: [VIDEO]

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rthrfrd · 2024-03 · Recommendation

I find Daniel Dennett's framing of competency vs comprehension a good place to start. He did a nice talk at the RI on it some time ago[1]. A previous one overlaps with similar ground[2]. [1] [LINK] [2] [VIDEO]

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neom · 2017-03 · Recommendation

World Science Festival has a slew of really awesome talks etc on this subject posted to youtube: [LINK] And The Neuroscience of Consciousness – with Anil Seth is really great: [LINK] Information, Evolution, and intelligent Design - With Daniel Dennett: [VIDEO]

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