“Paul once said to me 'the immune competition between all kinds of pathogens is what shapes us'. What is free will- the in-between of all our biological drives?” -@rivatez
Of course germ Theory is its own tradition of knowledge and practice. Can be lost.
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Arguably we can infer Romans had hygienic equivalent to germ theory just from the low army casualties due to infectious disease. Only matched by 19th century armies.
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Discussion on lineal vs lateral transfer is relevant here:http://yhwhmemorial.org/flood-resistant-lineages …
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Memes and meme complexes that win on group selection are quite different from ones that win on infectiousness (i.e. in the so-called Marketplace of Ideas).
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do you mean group selection literally, or just prosaically to mean "the group that survived"? because there is no such thing as group selection
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Group selection usually doesn't work at the gene level, but with engineered memeplexes that are able to exert approximate ownership of genetic lineages, it can work at the meme level.
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But even on the gene level, multi-cellular organisms are the result of group selection. Though it requires rare circumstances: shared-fate and enforcable conformity.
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As soon as a group of organisms has a shared immune system, that is, a concentration of power and the ability to impose an internal order, then it becomes useful to model it as a superorganism, and analyze selection pressures on the group.
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genetic group selection has no plausible mechanism, it's still selfish genes driving the higher order patterns. to explain altruism beyond naive kin selection, look into bet hedging:https://twitter.com/paulsbohm/status/986856994891030529 …
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