June 19, 2008

TED Talks - Susan Blackmore on Memes and Temes

Another excellent talk from TED, I think the best snippet of the talk comes quite early on, about 3 minutes in, when she talks about the evolutionary algorithm and quote Dan Dennet.

If you have

  • Variation
  • Selection
  • Heredity

You MUST get evolution.Dennet sums this up nicely with

“Design out of Chaos Without the Aid of Mind”

Unfortunately after a great start the rest of the talk seems very rushed and speculative, ideas are not introduced and explored properly as if she has taken a 3 hour lecture and culled it down to 20 minutes without dropping any concepts.

Worth the 20 minutes even so :)

* Filed by dave at 12:22 pm under web video

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