| Nathaniel Eliot ( @ 2008-12-06 12:01:00 |
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Dodo Rere Meme
I'm starting to note an interesting trend in psychology, which I'm going to try to encapsulate in the flip rubic: "memetics recapitulates genetics, at higher speed". The reason that questions of assigning mental results (emotional stability, sociopathy, etc.) to either biological or social causes persists is due to a false dichotomy: that the same result can't have two (or more) disparate sources. Evolution tends to move populations to fill underexploited niches; memetics postulates another stratum for evolution, so most niches should have convergent genetic and memetic exploits. Their underlying functionality, however, will be as different as the structure of bat and bird wings; worse yet, memetics can build on partial genetic structure, providing shadings of important distinctions between pigeon and eagle wings.