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Episode 54: Computational and Explanatory Universality (IQ part 2)

The Theory of Anything

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The Effect of Genes on Desires

The Deutsch worldview that desires are not affected by genes is false. The Western market fact is this idea that if you raise children together that their sexual traction shuts off towards each other. That's going to create a mean that that there's a social taboo against having sex with your siblings. And so, for me, may do all the heavily lifting right it doesn't have to be that the genes do all the heavy lifting. They just have to be aware through trial and error through variation selection that there's these memes that they've come into existence that can take advantage of them.

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