Completing the Darwinian Revolution (Robert Wright & David Sloan Wilson)

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🗓️ 21 May 2019

⏱️ 71 minutes

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David's new book, This View of Life ... In what sense, if any, could evolution be conscious? ... The need to complete the Darwinian revolution ... An evolutionary psychology discussion makes Bob tape his mouth shut ... How successful groups avert the tragedy of the commons ... Convergent cultural evolution ... David: Evolution shows that neither laissez faire nor centralized planning works ... A preview of the coming Bob vs. David showdown over group selection ...

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast from Meaning of Life TV.
0:08.6	Hi, David.
0:10.2	Hello, Bob.
0:11.5	How are you doing?
0:12.4	Pretty good.
0:14.0	Good.
0:14.6	Let me introduce this.
0:15.3	I'm Robert Wright.
0:15.9	This is the right show available on both streaming video and the audio podcast.
0:19.6	You're David Sloan Wilson.
0:21.5	Well-known biologist. You're at Binghamton University. Is that the official name? Yep, it likes to be called
0:27.1	Binghamton University, and it is part of the State University of New York. It used to be called
0:31.2	Cindy Binghamton, right? That's right. Okay. So we're going to talk about your pretty new book, This View of Life,
0:39.2	completing the Darwinian Revolution and Related Matters.
0:42.8	Yeah.
0:43.8	And the great thing about you, David, is that you're by nature kind of an evangelist.
0:48.5	So I don't really have to, like, plan out this conversation much.
0:52.3	I can just push your button. You'll start sermonizing, and I'll interrupt you every once in a while. In fact, you said via email you had a
0:59.7	plan for the conversation. First we would talk about stuff you and I agree on and then you
1:05.5	we would move to stuff that we disagree on. So sounds like, you know, we'll just follow your
1:10.3	plan. I would start out
1:12.0	with one question. So I was kind of surprised in the book, you compare this book to another book,
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