Richard Dawkins - This is my vision of life.
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- Опубліковано 19 вер 2024
- "My vision of life is that everything extends from replicators, which are in practice DNA molecules on this planet. The replicators reach out into the world to influence their own probability of being passed on. Mostly they don't reach further than the individual body in which they sit, but that's a matter of practice, not a matter of principle. The individual organism can be defined as that set of phenotypic products which have a single route of exit of the genes into the future. That's not true of the cuckoo/reed warbler case, but it is true of ordinary animal bodies. So the organism, the individual organism, is a deeply salient unit. It's a unit of selection in the sense that I call a "vehicle".
There are two kinds of unit of selection. The difference is a semantic one. They're both units of selection, but one is the replicator, and what it does is get itself copied. So more and more copies of itself go into the world. The other kind of unit is the vehicle. It doesn't get itself copied. What it does is work to copy the replicators which have come down to it through the generations, and which it's going to pass on to future generations. So we have this individual replicator dichotomy. They're both units of selection, but in different senses. It's important to understand that they are different senses".
*A Conversation With Richard Dawkins [4.30.15]
RICHARD DAWKINS is an evolutionary biologist; Emeritus Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science, Oxford; Author, The Selfish Gene; The Extended Phenotype; Climbing Mount Improbable; The God Delusion; An Appetite For Wonder; and (forthcoming) A Brief Candle In The Dark
If this were anyone other than Richard Dawkins, I don't think I would have been able to finish watching with all the clanging of bells throughout the video...thanks for sharing
This guy stuns me with his intellect and wonderful communication style.
Complaints about the bells are more annoying than bells.
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Damn bells🤪😠😡👹
Hells Bells actually hast some bells ua-cam.com/video/etAIpkdhU9Q/v-deo.html
I love the sound of the bells ringing out the truth as only science can provide.
Victoria Sage One certainly could interpret the bells as heralding in scientific truths I think it's a good way to interpret them rather than the rusty old dundane reasons religion gives to hem, I like it, & this great talk by Richard.
One of the most informative and thought-provoking videos I've ever watches. The information was explained in a way which made it very easy to follow. Good job dawkins :)
those of you who can't watch because you hear bells aren't even trying. it's so easy having it your way isn't it? if you can't have 100% of what you want, well, balls to that. let's get a grip and grow up a little folks. i like the bells AND i love this beautiful man who has worked for ALL of us, and is a shining beacon of truth through demonstration. much respect sir.
Well said sir.
haha are those church bells? Richard is such a troll
Then why do you listen to him?
Some local idiot from the church knew what time and place Richard was to record this video. They're working much harder than he is and if Richard can ignore the background noise...so can I.
+Joseph Nordenbrock I saw it as heaven agree with Richard :-)
Does this man even know how handsome he is? What a gorgeous older man. Yes the talk was as superb as usually, but I was really taken by his looks.
Gege Andersen wtf
Yes, he should have been a sperm donor ! One child isn't enough - those kind, intelligent, good-looking genes need to be spread about as much as possible !
Go Jackoff.
Those BELLS! I had to turn it off. Every time I thought it was over, as the calm dulcet tones of RD washed over me, Those BELLS would return!
I love the bells, how very British, how very oxford.
Mr Dawkins is an Atheist but it's only a word
He speaks more truth than all my poor years attending mass
Mr Dawkins, you’re speaking but we’re listening. Your job allows you to tune out those bells, our job makes it very difficult to tune them out. Make this video again without the bells, please. Your thoughts are very important to us.
I'll be at Clearwater event also , Love Dawkins but couldn't take the Bells in the background
bells end at 27:30
who rings a bell for half an hour?
Anglicans
I should take notes.
What's with the bells??? There's no other video on UA-cam of Dawkins explaining this principle so plainly and concisely. And I'm having to fight the godawful, dissonant, arhythmic clanging of those awful bells. What a relief it is when they finally stop!
I would have loved to listen to this, I think Richard Dawkins is great, but it is impossible to listen to because of the bells in the back ground, they were driving me crazy, very very distracting. I'm sorry I was not able to watch this video.
Brilliant, few are so clear and eloquent as this man. He really speaks like he writes, I very much admire his work.
The congruence of how Dawkins describes genes and how Nietzsche described the Will to Power is astonishing.
meme
A brilliant man, his literature is a legacy and can open your eyes to the sublime truth of life on earth.
I just close my eyes and imagine that I am into the church of the future, in which the truth is spoken out, rather than now days indoctrination.
in all seriousness, if he's able to think lucidly and explain relatively advanced concepts while those church bells are ringing, i guess this is partly why he's able to do the intellectual things he's done in his life.
Can someone please upload a version of this without the background noise.
Get some noise cancelling headphones.
SPEED UP THE VIDEO TO 1.25. Trust me the bells muddle together and dawkins voice is way more clear then.
This video should get more views "billions", thank you professor
the bells , the bells! , the BELLS! time can you feel it :P so basically its like this super armored tank or craft that copys the replicator droids does it disassemble and rebuild them taking just the best bits or is it a perfect copy and is there bad copys or a reject bin somewhere , or is that not in its programing, does it have a on-board workshop..hmmm
Can't wait to see my boi in Clearwater in October.
"Esmerelda"
How Ironic... an atheist talking his ideas with them damn church bells in the background. Sorry Richard.. I can't concentrate on what your saying because of this annoying noise. I'll try and find this talk elsewhere.
I think he planed it that way... Kind of a Judo move.... the bells intended as a to call to prayer, and to show the Church's dominance over society, as well as their omnipresence..... are cleverly used to announce the Explanation of the code of life, and the Glory of Empiricism
Those damn bell trolls.
Why the bells? Ok, the person who edited this video is making a futile attempt to impose what they think is a clever, subtle touch here (perhaps there's a religious symbolic flip of the finger, maybe an attempt to infuse the film with an air of Oxfordian authority or just a plain parasitical attempt to steal some airtime - who knows/cares?). You really didn't need to bother mate! It's irritating, pointless, stupid, childish and distracts the viewer from the far more interesting vision, eloquence and teaching of this wonderful mind!!!
Rob Dodwell couldn't have said it better. The entire time I was thinking is Oxford a religions cult, what on earth is that?
He lives in a Village with a Church & it was bell practice day.
The bells were almost certainly not added in by the person editing the video. The guy lives in Oxford surrounded by mediæval churches full of people who get enthusiastic about elaborate patterns of bell ringing in a way Anglicans have turned into a fine art.
Religions Describe God as Human figure entity who is in sky and dies for our sins. Science is CLOSER to finding a intelligent designer who I call a scientific God!
Thanks for posting. Dawkins is progress. I admire the guy pretty much indeed. The conception of religion, tho I respect those who follow it. Does nothing but fuck with progress itself. Ask the medieval age.
*Regarding the BELLS, (sorry to say this and waste time of yours with this bullshit), all of those who commented on how they were annoyed with the noise, I, as well as most, came to find questions and thoughts about the talk itself and u complaining about fucking bells? Shame on u.
Natural selection is a great process, but you run into problems when you try to explain the complexities of the cell with mutation. Evolution dogma. The math is not there.
behavior is because there are genes which wants us to behave? Teleologic and confiration bias at work. lel behavior is, because of the fact, that we are defined by a markov blanket aka strive for reducing free energy/ local entropy as a dissipative structure aka because we are alive.
Church bells to troll.
So we are just our genes...?
I am just a vessel for my genes to replicate...
And Dawkins wonders why he is so disliked.
This level of genetic determinism is simply wrong, and Dawkins has done a disservice with his writing such that many people now believe everything about human beings, including our intelligence and our behaviour is determined by our genes. This mistaken and misunderstood view which people have taken from the metaphor of the Selfish Gene and much of the nonsense espoused in Sociobiology is leading, as people like Gould, Rose and Lewontin have long pointed out, to unpleasant and unsavoury views that have bedeviled and distorted Biology for decades.
People like Robert Sapolsky have spoken out strongly about how genetic determinism and "reductionism", particularly with regard to behaviour and intelligence is simply wrong and dangerous.
This is why people like Stephen Rose dislike Dawkins's use of metaphor and how it has led to so much misunderstanding. Dawkins should spend less time worrying about the existence of God and more on eradicating some of the unfortunate Memes that his writing has fostered.
So quite frankly DEAL with that....
You should actually read The Selfish Gene before dismissing your caricature of it
@@cephalopod7300 I have read it and some of the technical work of the scientists like Hamilton and Maynard Smith whose work the Selfish Gene popularizes. Dawkins himself has admitted that the title has been misunderstood and he would now call it the eternal gene. The idea of Memes introduced in the book has little basis in science beyond its' use as a metaphor.
I also referenced the work and opinion of serious scientists all of whom have taken issue with Dawkins and his writing. This is not a caricature but straightforward critique widely shared by many scientists since the book was first published.
At the moment there is now a burgeoning online industry in commentary and opinion (mostly of from the Libertarian RIght) based on misunderstandings of Dawkins's work. This has led to old, racist and eugenicist arguments and justifications marching back towards respectability with ill deserved confidence.
Given the history of Biology and its gross misuses, Eugenics is just one abomination, Dawkins should be focused on how such misunderstands are used to reinforce and justify prejudice and racism. That is far more important than telling Christians about the absurdity of the virgin birth.
Shut up
The bells are very British
Consciousness precedes lifeforms. The conscious life energy evolves until it finds God. Mankind is the final stage before that life energy can find some truth to this problem it is in. God has taken the form of man lived with him and showed him the way to the truth the light and the all conscious. Atheism does not understand the path of the saints. Reincarnation is the only way to comprehend the evolution of consciousness in forms.
+Je Suis So why do you have to come along and parasitize an incredible thinker with your silly, stupid little thoughts? You have done nothing of substance, invested no hard work or original thinking, and you think you can come along and ride on the coat-tails of an original thinker. You are disgusting. Larry, Taiwan
Please present evidence for your claim that "consciousness precedes lifeforms"
The 🔔 is to remind you monkeys, sorry evolutionists, that this guy is trying so hard to unwinding his nonsense but as a man of faith, we'll give him a zillion years of grace to undo through crazy evolution to admit like antony flew did that God, sorry intelligent design, sorry dna, of unbroken creative programming. Love it ☺. The same goal? I'm trying not to feel pity for him but God commands we forgive and offer eternal grace. A different exit route 😁
Your vision of life is cuckoo? 😁
This video should get more views "billions", thank you professor