It's interesting to me because it shows the importance of memes and collective knowledge over instinct in intelligent animals
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And it shows that when collective knowledge and memes go badly wrong, it can be disastrous for intelligent species.
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What if religion was our collective replacement for the instinctive ability to reproduce in sufficient quantity to not go extinct?
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The more knowledge we accumulate as a civilization the more complex our memeplexes need to be to be credible and at some point they collapse on the weight of their own complexity
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This, to me, more than anything seems to be the reason that advanced civilizations collapse
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