
Ep 43 Ch 15 "The Evolution of Culture" Part 3
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The Role of Creativity in the Evolution of Science
In a dynamic society scientific and technological innovations are generally made creatively that is to say they emerge from individual minds as novel ideas having acquired significant adaptations inside those minds. only in a static society there most changes indeed brought about in a way that i guess jokes might evolve with no great creativity being exercised by any individual participant. David writes another thing that should make us suspicious is the presence of the conditions for anti-rational meme evolution such as deference to authorityStatic subcultures and so on anything that says because i say so or it never did me any harm suggests static society thinking we should examine and criticize laws customs and other institutions with an eye to whether they set up conditions forAnti-rational memes


