Richard Dawkins Quotes


When you make machines that are capable of obeying instructions slavishly, and among those instructions are 'duplicate me' instructions, then of course the system is wide open to exploitation by parasites.


Citations

Dawkins, Richard. "Viruses of the Mind." Dennett and His Critics: Demystifying Mind, edited by Bo Dahlbom, Blackwell, 1993.

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Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins
  • Born: March 26, 1941
  • Nationality: English
  • Profession: Scientist

Richard Dawkins FRS FRSL is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was the University of Oxford's Professor for Public Understanding of Science from 1995 until 2008. An atheist, he is well known for his criticism of creationism and intelligent design.