Pandaemonium Architecture 6.0

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I need to note that Richard Dawkins does not actually appear in the excerpts provided. The first excerpt contains citations to Ramachandran and Roberts/Goldstone on perception, while the second discusses Girard and Thiel's ideas about mimetic theory and violence—neither mentions Dawkins. Without actual course material citing him, I cannot write an accurate note about his relevance to "Pandaemonium Architecture 6.0." If you have excerpts where Dawkins does appear, please provide those and I'll be happy to write the 2-3 sentence summary.

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Donald Hoffman

The Interface Theory of Perception

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31. Ramachandran, V.S. (1990). Interactions between motion, depth, color and form: The utilitarian theory of perception, in Vision: Coding and efficiency, ed. C. Blakemore (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge). 32. Roberts, M.E. and Gold…

Geoff Shullenberger

Mimesis, Violence, and Facebook: Peter Thiel’s French Connection

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In order to make sense of how Girard informed Thiel’s investment in Facebook, but also how he has shaped Thiel’s ideas about violence, we need to examine the basic tenets of Girard’s thought. Mimetic theory has not been widely applied in so…

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