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Ep: 99 David Deutsch‘s ”The Beginning of Infinity” - a retrospective in 99 minutes

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What Is a Meme?

The concept of a meme was invented by richard dawkins, and is the abstract analogue of a gene. Duch finds this notion to be about dynamic and static societies. Why is it that so many societies have gone extinct? Especially given that the brains of people in the past were anatomically almost indistinguishable from the ones we have today. So why weren't they? Well, because they used their creativity to keep things the same.

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