that doesn't always happen, either. have you ever heard the question, "what's the difference between a dialect and a language"? there are many places where developing a unique idiolect is valued over linguistic homogeny. its only empires that want it so badly.
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we're never going to agree.
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Of course. Vulgar scientism isn't fit for the environment of intelligence.
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Hmm... this feels like saying that the invention of calculus reduces everything to integrals and derivatives. Realizing Darwinian optimization is all over the place only offers us one more tool in our understanding.
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The idea that the Memes, in terms of concepts, and the systems that reproduce themselves more generally, which are most successful in that reproduction will be the most common will be obvious. But systems are fundamentally historical phenomena, one cannot consider
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Another problem in this hypostatization of Darwinism seems to be the foregoing of any revursivity. If 'Darwinism' can't select itself away at certain levels of complexity, it becomes either self-contradictory, tautological or just God.
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evolution evolves indeed, if that's what you mean. but I can't make any sense of variation-selection being "surpassed"
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Darwinism was rooted in the material context-adaptive responses to environmental stressors. To argue that Darwinism works as a cosmic law is gifting it a Geist-like quality and disregarding scales. Which is fine as metaphysical speculation, but that's pretty much it.
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the abstract dynamics of Darwinism (variation and selection) don't seem to be scale-bound.
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