The Evolution of Purposes - Presented by Prof Daniel Dennett
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Uploaded by gradscienceunimelb on Nov 18, 2011
In his talk, Professor Dennett discusses the following:
Before there was life on Earth, there were no purposes, no reasons. Things just happened. How could purposes emerge from such purposeless conditions?
Looking back at the evolution of life on the planet, we can now see -- if only dimly -- the patterns that led to the exquisite functional organisations of matter that living forms exhibit. We human beings are the only living things that can represent these reasons, and comprehend them, but that does not make them illusory.
Recorded at the Carillo Gantner Theatre, Sidney Myer Asia Centre at the University of Melbourne on 15 November 2011.
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can anyone help me? i would like to use his differentiation about Why? in the begging of the lecture. the process narrative vs. justification to my thesis, where can i find written reference or source for this? thanks.
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