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Sat 9 May, 2015 10:08 pm
Does "The role of genetic natural selection in the story is to provide the brain, with its predilections and biases - the hardware platform and low-level system software which form the background to memetic selection" mean "The role of genetic natural selection in the story is to provide X to the brain (X refers to "the hardware platform and low-level system software which form the background to memetic selection"), although the brain has its predilections and biases"?
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has been largely shaped by unconscious evolution. Not by genetic
natural selection, which is too slow to account for the rapid
evolution and divergence of religions. The role of genetic natural
selection in the story is to provide the brain, with its predilections
and biases - the hardware platform and low-level system software
which form the background to memetic selection. Given this back-
ground, memetic natural selection of some kind seems to me to
offer a plausible account of the detailed evolution of particular
@oristarA,
brain, with
You need to remove the comma and put -, as you ended with one.
@molokow,
molokow wrote:
brain, with
You need to remove the comma and put -, as you ended with one.
Thanks.
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Quote:The role of genetic natural selection in the story is to provide the brain - with its predilections and biases - the hardware platform and low-level system software which form the background to memetic selection.
So you've agreed with me?
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