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Podcast: The Neurodivergent Professor
Episode: KEW Episode 156: Autism is Fitness in Darwin's Language
Description: Are you a religious person? An atheist? Agnostic?I consider myself to be agnostic. Mostly because I Don’t Know. If I had to choose any belief system to attach to, I would be a Darwinist. By this, I mean that I believe that Natural Selection is a meaningful explanation of life. When I think about ‘why we are here’, I can’t help but recognize how life persists through time.In short, I believe Darwin best explained what I think the purpose of life is. Life begets immortal individuals that can reproduce and perpe...