September 2010
2 posts
Steven Pinker's "How the Mind Works" Quotes 5
On many people taking the meme-evolution analogy too far:
The other extension of adaptation is the seemingly innocuous cliché that “cultural evolution has taken over from biological evolution.” […]
Richard Dawkins has drawn the clearest analogy between the selection of genes and the selection of bits of culture, which he dubbed memes. Memes such as tunes, ideas, and stories...
Therapy
This is fictional, autobiographical, and self-referential, and thus becomes non-fiction, since it refers to a real body of work (itself). More than anything else, it’s cathartic, and thus unfortunately probably very emo.
I meet our therapist for the first time, and I immediately ask about her credentials: How many patients has she treated before, whether or not number of patients is a good...