Memes & genes, and never the twain shall meet...or shall they?
Since the development of
H. Sapiens Sapiens about 100,000 years ago culture has been outpacing biology. Culture has been changing at an exponential rate, while our biology has been plodding along [1]. But now, we are on the cusp of a new age where biology is going to be effected by the choices that our culture allows. Man can remake himself and the technological facet of our culture will make that possible. We are nearing an inflection point in our biology analogous to the creative explosion that characterized the transition from "archaic" humans to modern humans. Kind of makes our argument with the
Samizdata crowd seem piddling.
Oh, and when are you going to post more pictures of Natalija Radic?
[1] By culture, I mean technology as well, and we can see that before our very eyes. On the other hand, religion for instance is something that has changing a lot too, and more theological development has probably gone on in say Judaism in the past 200 years than in the past 2,000!