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I think I probably assume a greater power in certain cultural memes in shaping perception at every level than almost anyone I’ve met. All insight breaks down to pattern-matching & if the constraints are mediated by culture to the extent I think they are, heterogeneity is crucial
I expect there’s a feedback loop between culture & typical experiences that constrains the kinds of thinking that are (in a very real sense) possible at all. One way to look at “tribe”/shared reality/social cohesion is as an emergent property of people who *cannot* deviate much
I don’t think it’s coincidental that so many people who think or do interesting things are both smart & super weird socially. They have socially cohesive memes, too, but they tend to deal with the object-level stuff much less
But even within a single well-defined culture, the trace of an individual life - a phenotype - can be so distinguished from any other one. Sure, memetic influences are strong and some types of individuals are more.. bosons than fermions. But the space for individualism is large.
Heterogenity is guaranteed genetically, isn’t it. Similarities are random.
Heterologies Discourse on the Other 1986 • Author: Michel de Certeau
Would you also wager that those who assign a higher value to the impact of social memes on personality and verbal behavior are more likely to be “weird”?
“thoroughly socialised consciousness”https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1091287428948623360?s=21 …
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