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human
Animals have for a long time been able of quite elaborate tricks and nests that we call extended phenotypes, these are built in to the animal like a pre-programmed behavior we call instinct.
But being able to learn new tricks is a lot more complex, most animals can only be taught something if immediately rewarded, and they will have a difficult time mimicking the behavior of others.
Humans have an easy time mimicking the behavior of others, because our strategy revolves around learning.
This learning behavior is such a benefit to humans that the pre-programmed behaviors are phased out making room for this newly found ability.
Mutating genetically implanted behavior is hard, takes time and evolves slowly, a learned behavior can evolve in real time, and mutates much more aggressively to suit the environment in which its host lives.
Because of this Ideas can not only manipulate our immediate actions, but also our long term motivations, standing in for our genetic imperatives.
Who do you teach your ideas to?
Who better to teach your new ideas to, than your own children? this way the idea, otherwise un-restricted by our phenotype, is in this way tied to the survival of the phenotype and can only serve the replication of its host lest it perish itself.
Relative to the child, the parent represents success because he has replicated.
This constrains the idea to only serve the replication of its host, it mutates and becomes a recipe for a fertile lifestyle.
In this goal, it can apply a few tricks, for instance, it does not necessarily have to be testable, provable or otherwise adhere to the scientific rules we have now invented.
These inherited ideas are more commonly referred to as religions, stories which blends fabula and historia to create motivations and drives which correlates positively with fertility.
gpt
An idea that is not exclusively inherited becomes a meme, because it is no longer constrained by the phenotype, it is allowed to evolve on its own, to the detriment of its host.
One of the first functions previously provided by the idea to go, would be the ideas that could not be tested and proved.
This gave the idea an edge in its own replication, but hampered its original functionality as a recipe for fertility.
Slowly there was established a line between historia and fabula, the morals of the stories became obfuscated and fewer.
The meme selects for inclusive traits, so morals, rules, hierarchies and the otherwise exclusive traits of the inherited religious ideas has to give way so as to make the idea as spreadable as possible.
The motivation that people under the influence of the meme has, gradually goes from spreading themselves, to spreading the gene.
They live for the meme, for truth, and the meme does not live for them.
human


good thread