The mind of the psychics is a super resolution algorithm. They hallucinate subtle details until the most consistent total image is generated, and their success depends disproportionally on the cases where it works.
Not only is the individual selected by its culture, the cultures are selected among each other. Some cultures win in this next layer of the evolution, and on average because they encourage more successful models of reality.
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You think somebody who wins in reality TV is a good scientist? :)
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It will be more accurate to phrase "survival of the fittest" as the "survival of the most sucking up". Sucking up to the environment means adaption. If the environment is good, it may lead to truth. But there is absolutely no guarantee. Most likely, the environment is delusional.
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This is why the cultural appropriation debate makes me so uncomfortable. The flip side is identification with one's culture, not freedom from it. Cultures are constantly evolving and being replaced by new ones. Don't hold on to these sinking ships, and especially not a sunken one
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It is not guaranteed though. For instance, when the Roman republic was replaced by a religious cult, it lost rational epistemology for a Millennium. Food and creature comforts took a long time to recover. Some people are afraid that the same could happen to the US.
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