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Dan Dennett: Fake People Aren’t Funny

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

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The Cherry Picking Process

Our lives and actually the lives of all living things can be viewed as the attempt to select the useful stuff from the stuff that's on offer. The words that come out of your mouth are words that have been semi understood, blurts issued by an unconscious part of your brain. And they're all competing to get said. It's not as if you are a Cartesian ego sitting in the control room and judging the judging process is another cherry picking process.

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