{"id":84168,"date":"2018-10-29T08:42:26","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T15:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/technology-and-culture-our-accelerating-epigenetic-factor-driven-evolution"},"modified":"2018-11-01T15:27:39","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T22:27:39","slug":"technology-and-culture-our-accelerating-epigenetic-factor-driven-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/technology-and-culture-our-accelerating-epigenetic-factor-driven-evolution","title":{"rendered":"Technology and Culture: Our Accelerating Epigenetic Factor Driven Evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Memes are not just learned, they run deeper than that, they are part of our shared experience as human beings. This is how we communicate to each other through spoken, written, and body language; this is how we participate in customs, rituals and cultural traditions. Indeed, human civilization has always been a \u201ccultured\u201d virtual reality. We don\u2019t often think of cultures as virtual realities, but there is no more apt descriptor for our widely diverse sociology and interpretations than the metaphor of the \u201cvirtual reality.\u201d In truth, the virtual reality metaphor encompasses the entire human enterprise. We should realize that all our ideologies and religions, our belief systems and models of reality are our own personal operating systems \u2014 real to us but wry to someone else \u2014 each of us lives in a seemingly shared but simultaneously private virtual world.<\/p>\n

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By Alex Vikoulov.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal One. And this deep power in which we exist, and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one. We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are the shining parts, is the soul.\u201d \u2014 Ralph Waldo Emerson, \u201cThe Over-Soul\u201d (1841) <\/p>\n

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Memes are not just learned, they run deeper than that, they are part of our shared experience as human beings. This is how we communicate to each other through spoken, written, and body language; this is how we participate in customs, rituals and cultural traditions. Indeed, human civilization has always been a \u201ccultured\u201d virtual reality. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":496,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,412,48,8,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-genetics","category-particle-physics","category-space","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/496"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84362,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84168\/revisions\/84362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}