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Dangerous memes | Dan Dennett



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http://www.ted.com Starting with the simple tale of an ant, philosopher Dan Dennett unleashes a devastating salvo of ideas, making a powerful case for the existence of memes — concepts that are literally alive.

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33 thoughts on “Dangerous memes | Dan Dennett
  1. Don’t get the wrong idea here, since of course I believe that god is something much more dangerous than a parasite. I think he’s a conspiracy of living humans, those of whom who receive the most adulation from their literary audience being the best and most outrageously hypocritical liars.

  2. Just read Hegel, folks. This meme talk is nothing but a pseudo-scientific philistinism that’s already on its way to the dumpster of dumb ideas.

  3. this should be a movie , full length, feature, animated, documentary, short, franchise, imax, tear-jerker, interactive, dubbed, foreign, black and white, silent, 3-d, straight-to-video, director's cut, live, on demand, made-for-tv… is this guy still talking, 11 years later, he's still on that stage, still saying something about ants

  4. Unfortunately Darwinism doesn’t explain life itself. It assumes life with the primordial cell. Science has also proven God does exist with the revelation of the Big Bang. Matter can’t create itself. Also there is a logical problem. If we believe materialism to be true, then why should we believe that since we have no control over our thoughts. They are simply the materialistic workings of a moist robot. So we can’t believe our thoughts if we have no control over them which is what Darwinism is. So, materialism & necessarily atheism fails right out the gate.

  5. wow, what a hypocrite. He listed a bunch of "infectious" ideas, but didn't list Darwinism, evolution, or science as options. This is not my saying that any of these three are somehow false. Its just that "parasitic" ideas cannot be defined as just those ideas someone thinks are false. It only makes sense if it includes everything.

  6. Traditions are always being wiped out, it’s the byproduct of progress. I live in a developing country and I can promise you that give the indigenous people a choice between a traditional festival and getting a new iPhone, the iPhone wins almost 100% of the time.

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