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We are now "intelligent designers" who can consciously engineer new memes (like scientific theories or technologies).

Interestingly, Dennett warns that with the rise of Black Box AI , we might be headed back to a world of competence without comprehension—where our tools are brilliant, but even we don't understand how they work. 4. Consciousness as a User-Interface From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution o...

If you're interested in exploring these themes further, you can find the book at retailers like Barnes & Noble , Walmart, and City Lights Booksellers . We are now "intelligent designers" who can consciously

Words are the primary "thinking tools." By learning language, we "install" software in our brains that allows us to reflect, plan, and create. Consciousness as a User-Interface If you're interested in

If biological evolution gave us the hardware (our brains), cultural evolution gave us the software. Dennett leans heavily on the concept of —units of cultural information that replicate and evolve just like genes.

The most radical shift Dennett proposes is that .