One section of this book publicizes a freshman essay by Richard Stern, which updates Hume'sDialogues Concerning Natural Religion using the metaphor of the Tinker to Evers to Chance doubleplay. Another portion explains that the key feature of an algorithm is the ability to work the sameprocedure on any input, which the author terms (*) "substrate ne
One section of this book publicizes a freshman essay by Richard Stern, which updates Hume'sDialogues Concerning Natural Religion using the metaphor of the Tinker to Evers to Chance doubleplay. Another portion explains that the key feature of an algorithm is the ability to work the sameprocedure on any input, which the author terms (*) "substrate neutrality." This book compares the titleconcept to a "universal acid" which can eat through anything, sweeping away all previous conceptions inhuman culture, and warns against facile reductionism by stating that the central concept is a "crane" andnot a "skyhook." For 10 points, identify this 1995 text about the wide-ranging philosophical impact ofevolutionary theory, written by Daniel Dennett.
One section of this book publicizes a freshman essay by Richard Stern, which updates Hume'sDialogues Concerning Natural Religion using the metaphor of the Tinker to Evers to Chance doubleplay.
Darwin's Dangerous Idea