Podcasts that mention 📚 The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins
The Blind Watchmaker
Mentioned 3 times in 3 episodes across 2 podcasts.
Podcasts that mention The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins
Lex Fridman Podcast episodes that mention The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins
Episode: Lee Cronin: Origin of Life, Aliens, Complexity, and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #269
Published on March 11, 2022
This relates to the blind watchmaker argument, which questions how something complex, like a watch, could spontaneously emerge. Well, it doesn't; it's a lineage of lesser watches and devices that couple and bootstrap onto one another.
The mention of the 'blind watchmaker argument' refers to the idea of how complex systems can emerge from simpler components. This is an implicit reference to Richard Dawkins' book, 'The Blind Watchmaker', which explores evolution and the process of natural selection.
Episode: Richard Dawkins: Evolution, Intelligence, Simulation, and Memes | Lex Fridman Podcast #87
Published on April 9, 2020
the following is a conversation with Richard Dawkins an evolutionary biologist and author of The Selfish Gene the blind watchmaker The God Delusion the magic of reality and the greatest show of Earth and his latest Al growing God
The host introduces Richard Dawkins by listing several of his notable books.
The Joe Rogan Experience episodes that mention The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins
Episode: Joe Rogan Experience #1366 - Richard Dawkins
Published on October 22, 2019
I'm also humorous I mean I like to think it's a funny book but a lot of people do think it's hard in the other sense
Richard Dawkins describes his book (referring back to The God Delusion) as humorous.
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