October 08, 2004
John Maynard Smith interview
All of this stuff about Robert Wright and Daniel Dennett led me to meaningoflife.tv, a collection of interviews by Robert Wright with scientists, historians, philosophers and others. Wright doesn't pretend to be a professional interviewer, but that doesn't matter very much. I just watched the complete interview with the late John Maynard Smith (pictured here), probably the greatest evolutionary biologist of the 20th century. The interview runs just under an hour, and ranges from the application of game theory to evolution, to Marxism, to computers and consciousness, and death. Highly recommended. I hope the rest are as good.
Nice link! I just listened to this interview and it is fascinating! I have sampled a few of the others and while they are interesting, they do not hold my attention in the same way.
Posted by: Susan in St. Paul at October 8, 2004 08:34 PM