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 . From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution o...
We are now "intelligent designers" who can consciously engineer new memes (like scientific theories or technologies). If biological evolution gave us the hardware (our