From TEDTalks, the video below is of an interesting talk by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins on the strangeness of science. Dawkins hits on some points that I’ve written about before: mathematical and scientific models as convenient representations of our observations, not as absolute truth. (My previous posts: atomic models and intuition, ethics and technology, response to david weinberger’s lecture.) Beyond that, he ties the notion of a model to evolutionary traits and behaviors—the part that makes the talk really interesting.
http://static.videoegg.com/ted/flash/loader.swf
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