Joseph on Nostr: 15/25 “Persons, according to the meme model we have sketched, are just such larger, ...

15/25

“Persons, according to the meme model we have sketched, are just such larger, higher entities, and the policies they come to adopt, as a result of interactions between their meme-infested brains, are not at all bound to answer to the interests of their genes alone—or their memes alone. That is our transcendence, our capacity to ‘rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators,’ as Dawkins says, and there is nothing anti-Darwinian or antiscientific about it.”