TED talk #5

In Dan Dennett's TED talk "sweet, sexy, cute, funny" he explores exactly that what makes something sweet to taste, sexy or cute to look at, or funny. The theory stems from Darwinism, things are sweet because they are sweet, or brains have been trained to identify sugar, that quick energy so we identify sweet. We find babies cute because we need to love them and want to care for them, and so on. Dan presents quickly and factually, he doesn't beat around the bush, he gives you the facts with a quick and humorous delivery. He uses pictures to enhance what he is speaking of. Though this wasn't a TED talk that affects our daily lives is told us something important that does affect us today, we trained our brain to find the opposite sex sexy, food that at the time, was sugary good fruit, find our babies cute so we will love them and find situations funny to take away from the uniformity of day to day life, can't we train our brains to adapt to what the modern man needs. Educators retraining the mind to find solutions or adapt to new languages.