speciation is nebulous at various points, but it's still a very lively driving force, even at the most cultural of levels.
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speciation isn't the reason we're speaking english, colonialism is
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speciation is the reason English and German aren't the same thing.
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What on earth are you talking about? Not every variational factor can be talked about in terms of speciation. Moreover, what is important here is not the diversity of natural languages but the very internal logic-computational mechanics of language itself which is invariant.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @cyborg_nomade and
Social darwinism is strange. If these are actually the most intellectually "fit" concepts, why are they unpopular, not only among the relevant specialties they claim dominion over but among biologists as well? Oh, right, it's the Cathedral, suppressing the truth like the Masons.
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Replying to @anti_minotaur @NegarestaniReza and
You're misunderstanding. Whatever concepts are good at spreading will spread. 'Good at spreading' doesn't necessarily mean true, it only requires getting the limbic juices flowing in the
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Replying to @higherOrderNet @anti_minotaur and
Would you be tell me then why the concept of geocentricism was put aside? What did exactly happen to those old world concepts?
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @higherOrderNet and
This overextension of Darwinism is the actual betrayal of Darwin. It has zero explanatory value. How can you describe or explain anything objectively if every concept is gauged by its spreading factor? Concepts are inferences, that's why some of them get repaired or replaced.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @higherOrderNet and
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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Replying to @vanishingmaze @NegarestaniReza and
the abstract dynamics of Darwinism (variation and selection) don't seem to be scale-bound.
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Every phenomenon should be treated as scale-sensitive in physics whether it is the distribution of atoms at the surface of liquid mercury or the dynamics of Darwin. It's just that the criteria of differentiating scales/level pragmatically vary.
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