We mistake the brain for the seat of intelligence and the individual for its owner. Both depend upon a much larger system.
Tag: cultural evolution
Popularity is not a measure of significance. The economics of attention systematically rewards familiar ideas while disadvantaging those capable of changing how we think.
Cognitive bandwidth becomes cultural destiny because the carrying capacity of technologically mediated communication systems exceeds the carrying capacity of the biological minds living inside them.
A simple truth: almost no one really knows what they are doing. Most people are copying the nearest stable behavioural or belief pattern, then calling the repetition judgment, expertise, culture, policy, taste, method, or common sense. A thing happens once and remains noise. It happens again and becomes relation. It keeps happening and becomes structure, […]
