http://www.virtualchaos.co.uk/blog I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf mutes ... or should I? Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:27:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 http://www.virtualchaos.co.uk/blog/2007/11/21/daniel-dennett-ants-terrorism-and-the-awesome-power-of-meme/ http://www.virtualchaos.co.uk/blog/2007/11/21/daniel-dennett-ants-terrorism-and-the-awesome-power-of-meme/#comments Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:19:59 +0000 nadeem.shabir http://www.virtualchaos.co.uk/blog/2007/11/21/daniel-dennett-ants-terrorism-and-the-awesome-power-of-meme/ Found this wonderful TedTalk on You Tube by Dan Dennett, it summarises some of the ideas that he discusses at length in his new book Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon. I’ve always enjoyed reading his books. Dennett is a committed atheist, but this does not make him an enemy of the religious. His arguments and analysis are fair and the book’s purpose valuable and unlike Dawkins, Dennett takes a measured and rigorous approach: he seeks to explain religion rather than attack it. I’ve been reading his new book for a couple of days now and am thoroughly enjoying it. The Ted Talk below is very short but nevertheless Dennett manages to make some convincing arguments about the nature of ideas.

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