derekabutton

@derekabutton@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the last 1000 years we have not advanced as a species. We are just as tribal, dogmatic and reactionary as we always were. Given that scientists are people too, will science save us?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I suggest memes as in the Richard Dawkins original definition, not funny haha memes but shared reproducible culture. We are social creatures, more than any other, and our social development has happened far more quickly than typical evolution ever could.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the last 1000 years we have not advanced as a species. We are just as tribal, dogmatic and reactionary as we always were. Given that scientists are people too, will science save us?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Quite a bit of human development has been in the category of nurture, as opposed to nature. While humans have changed little biologically, I have an “appendage” in my hand that can communicate with an individual in space. Memes replicate and evolve much more quickly than genes do.