&590/ Watch to Be Inspired: Cute, Sexy, Sweet, Funny

By Harald Felgner on August 18, 2009 12:16 PM | View Comments |

Now here comes the new one! The strange inversion of reasoning.

Citing TED.com:

  • The talk. "Why are babies cute? Why is cake sweet? Philosopher Dan Dennett has answers you wouldn't expect, as he shares evolution's counterintuitive reasoning on cute, sweet and sexy things (plus a new theory from Matthew Hurley on why jokes are funny)."
  • The speaker. "Philosopher and scientist Dan Dennett argues that human consciousness and free will are the result of physical processes and are not what we traditionally think they are."

TED Talks 2009, Dan Dennett. View the talk! | Watch on an iPhone!

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