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Ep 43 Ch 15 "The Evolution of Culture" Part 3

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The Two Types of Memes

If a meme contains true and beneficial knowledge for the recipient but disables the recipient's critical faculties in regard to itself then the recipient will be less able to correct errors. A rational memes natural homers are dynamic society because there the tradition of criticism optimistically directed at problem-solving will suppress variants of the meme with even slightly less truth. Only deeply true memes have a chance of surviving, an anti-rational memes natural homer say static society not any static society but preferably the one in which it evolved for all the converse reasons.

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