From 0a5336b362bf7465ef32748169335f735c230cc8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Raphael Krut-Landau Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 09:43:51 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] "dawkins" --- notes/index.html | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/notes/index.html b/notes/index.html index 20ec455..97af560 100644 --- a/notes/index.html +++ b/notes/index.html @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ So, it's optional to translate these!

One core part of Cultural Evolution Theory is culture evolves the same way life does: through variation & selection. Variation: people differ in beliefs & behaviors, and invent new ones almost every day. Selection: people try to imitate their heroes & elders, and adopt their beliefs/behaviors.

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(Note: this is not quite Richard Dawkin's "meme" theory. "Meme" implies, that, like genes, ideas come in discrete chunks & replicate with high fidelity. This is obviously untrue. Also you can't say "meme" with a straight face these days, so whatever)

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(Note: this is not quite Richard Dawkins' "meme" theory. "Meme" implies, that, like genes, ideas come in discrete chunks & replicate with high fidelity. This is obviously untrue. Also you can't say "meme" with a straight face these days, so whatever)

The reason why I think Cultural Evolution is so promising, is that it could integrate all the human sciences: psychology, sociology, economics, anthropology, political science, neuroscience, biology. The greatest problems of our time do not obey conventional academic boundaries -- so, it's about dang time we created a common language between the sciences and humanities.