Saturday, September 15, 2007

José González does Dawkins

I don't watch TV, but even I know about this amazing Sony ad featuring the music of José González and 250,000 bouncing colored balls:



González is a Swedish musician, and the song in the ad is "Heartbeats", a cover of a song from a group called "The Knife".

Now he has a new album out, and guess what? It's based, at least in part, on Richard Dawkins.

I know what I want for my birthday!
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4 comments:

  1. Forthekids12:33 PM, September 15, 2007

    Ah, that explains it then...your aversion to the inference of design in nature.

    Sigh...figures. It's pretty rare that I run across a blogger who is so adamant that ID is nonsense unless they adhere to the conclusion that design is merely an "illusion".

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  2. Jeffrey Shallit3:14 PM, September 16, 2007

    FTK:

    I know what "design" means when we apply it to human creations. But I don't know what "design" means as a pure philosophical category.

    Does it only mean "pattern", or must there be a teleological component before we can claim "design"?

    P. S. Didn't anyone ever tell you it was rude to sigh?

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  3. dot9:21 AM, September 30, 2007

    I am catching up on blog reading, I love the video and I like the music: when is your birthday?

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  4. Jeffrey Shallit10:26 AM, October 01, 2007

    jyby:

    In about two weeks, thanks for asking.

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