Saturday, October 23, 2010

Douglas Adams: Human nature as an evolved creature

Douglas Adams talks about how our nature as an evolved creature and our limited perspective, can lead to some fundamental assumptions and misconceptions. Most of the talk is included, but a few minutes were taken out to fit it to two clips. Image quality isn't great, and the source video isn't much better.

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From a conference in 1998 called Der Digitale Planet (The Digital Planet, I guess), which also included Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Jared Diamond and Steven Pinker.

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