Every complex system has a part that works for reasons you don't know
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every sufficiently complex system has an element to it, that that works. But you can't, but you won't know exactly why it works, right?
Episode 47: Episode 47 00:55:50 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Summary
After the story of an obscure Freedom Controller URL shortener bug, Dave says it proves that every sufficiently complex system has something that works without anyone knowing exactly why. He links this to the evolutionary argument against naturalism: survival doesn't require true beliefs, only beliefs that happen to produce surviving behavior.
Not in the audio. The evolutionary argument against naturalism is generally credited to philosopher Alvin Plantinga; Dave doesn't name him.