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27: Daniel Schmachtenberger - On Avoiding Apocalypses

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Homo Sapiens - What's Particularly, a Primary Thing About Humans?

Homo sapians' capacity for techne is our capacity for tool and that social tools like language and democracy. And they are all abstract pattern replicators rather than instantiated pattern replicators, rits, mims rather than gens. So you can say that what humans selected for are genetics selected for mimet are,. genetic selected for radical neuro plasticity - which could change our capacity without needing hardware up grades. This is partly why we have such a long period of neotony right?

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