1. Why does Dennett suggest Darwin’s idea is a ‘universal acid’.
2. What did the ‘great chain of being’ or ‘cosmic pyramid’ explain to people of Locke’s era?
3. What features do algorithms possess? Does Darwin’s idea contain those features?
4. What does Darwin’s dangerous idea do to the cosmic pyramid? What does it have to say about ‘design’?
5. In the Darwinian vocabulary, what are ‘cranes’?
6. List three cranes.
7. What is the ‘crane-making crane’? Explain the concept of memes. Come up with three of your own memes?
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