Editing Darwin's Dangerous Idea (section)

=== Design Space ===
Dennett believes there is little or no principled difference between the naturally generated products of evolution and the man-made artifacts of human creativity and culture. For this reason he indicates deliberately that the complex fruits of the tree of life are in a very meaningful sense "designed"—even though he does not believe evolution was guided by a higher intelligence.

Dennett supports using the notion of memes to better understand [[cultural evolution]]. He also believes even human creativity might operate by the Darwinian mechanism.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/papers/valencia.htm| title = Could there be a Darwinian Account of Human Creativity?| date = 28 March 2023}}</ref> This leads him to propose that the "space" describing biological "design" is connected with the space describing human culture and technology.

A precise mathematical definition of Design Space is not given in ''Darwin's Dangerous Idea''. Dennett acknowledges this and admits he is offering a philosophical idea rather than a scientific formulation.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/papers/philbook.htm| title = Reply to Gregory Mulhauser| date = 28 March 2023}}</ref>