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Termites build complex mounds without a blueprint. They have the competence to build but no comprehension of architecture. 2. Memes: The Tools for Thinking

Just as Darwin showed that nature can "design" a wing without a designer, and Turing showed a computer can "calculate" without knowing math, Dennett argues that most of life operates on competence without comprehension . From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution o...

From Bacteria to Bach and Back: How Minds Evolved Without a Designer Termites build complex mounds without a blueprint

Interestingly, Dennett warns that with the rise of Black Box AI , we might be headed back to a world of competence without comprehension—where our tools are brilliant, but even we don't understand how they work. 4. Consciousness as a User-Interface Memes: The Tools for Thinking Just as Darwin

Episode 64: From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The evolution of minds

We don't just "have" ideas; ideas often use us to replicate. Culture evolved through a mindless process of selection long before we were smart enough to direct it. 3. The De-Darwinizing of Culture

The most radical shift Dennett proposes is that .