Name: 丹·丹尼特：可爱，性感，甜，搞笑
Uploaded: 2009-03-16T01:00:00Z
Duration: 7 min 31 s
Description: 为什么婴儿都很可爱？为什么蛋糕很甜？哲学家丹·丹尼特（Dan Dennett）有你意想不到的答案，他将与我们分享，进化论的与我们直觉相反的论证，关于那些可爱、甜的和性感的东西（还包括马修·赫尔利(Matthew Hurley)的一个新理论，关于笑话为什么好笑）.

为什么婴儿都很可爱？为什么蛋糕很甜？哲学家丹·丹尼特（Dan Dennett）有你意想不到的答案，他将与我们分享，进化论的与我们直觉相反的论证，关于那些可爱、甜的和性感的东西（还包括马修·赫尔利(Matthew Hurley)的一个新理论，关于笑话为什么好笑）.

丹·丹尼特：可爱，性感，甜，搞笑

Our love for chocolate cake, adorable babies, and even jokes is shaped by natural selection, not by any intrinsic property of these things. Honey is sweet because our brains evolved to crave high-energy foods, not because sweetness exists independently. A study found that mothers prefer the smell of their own babies’ diapers, a vivid example of nature’s deep customization. This so-called 'strange inversion' shows that our likes and attractions come first—what we call sweet, cute, or funny follows from how we are wired.