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Оглавление - Mechanisms of cultural evolution
- Introduction
- 1. Human, brain, mind
- The emergence of Homo sapiens
- Brain and Mind
- The ratio of the brain and mind
- Finding reason
- IQ.
- Motivation of the mind
- 2. Socialization and cultural adaptation
- Methods of cognition
- Socialization and reason
- The emergence of cultural adaptations
- 2. Socialization and cultural adaptation
- Methods of cognition
- Socialization and reason
- The emergence of cultural adaptations
- 3. Cultural evolution of Homo sapiens
- About evolution
- Prerequisites for the evolution of living things
- Evolution without genes
- Culture and mentality
- Clarification of the term «cultural evolution»
- Functional adaptations of the brain
- Culture and cultural evolution
- Differences in human evolution from other species
- 4. The origins of cultural evolution
- Information resource properties
- The reasons for the emergence of cultural evolution
- Correct division of labor
- Overcoming intraspecific aggression
- 5. Replicators of culture
- Replicators by R. Dawkins
- New MEM replicators
- MEMS are functional structures of the brain
- On models in science
- MEMs as models
- 6. Congenital, cultural MEMs, MEMnom
- Congenital MEMS, instincts
- Cultural MEMS
- Cultural codes
- MEMnom
- A new definition of cultural evolution.
- 7. Mechanisms of cultural inheritance
- Institutions
- Traditions
- Writing, media, internet.
- 8. Reflections on mentality
- The concept of mentality
- The stability of the mentality
- Mentality and modernization of society
- Modernization of one social unit
- Mentality, economics, politics
- 9. Some «wrong» questions
- Why didn’t monkeys become humans?
- MEMS and Alzheimer’s disease
- Why are parasites needed? Sakkulina
- 10. Selection of cultural evolution
- Parallel structures of two evolutions
- Old time interstate selection
- Modeling the global selection of the old world
- Interstate selection of modern times, globalization.
- 11. Evolution and self-organization
- Synergistic concept
- Understanding of self-organization processes
- Examples of self-organization
- Social systems
- 12. Engineering and biological construction
- Genes, environment, behavior
- 13. Freedom of coercion, manipulation
- Manipulation or Violence?
- Methods of manipulation
- 14. From autocracy to Marxism-Leninism
- Autocracy in Russia and its inborn shortcomings
- The failure of the autocracy
- The emergence of Marxism
- Claims to ML from the point of view of sociobiology
- Lenin as he was
- 15. Reformatting of the Russian Empire
- Social (cultural) track
- The October coup that changed the channel of evolution
- Transformation (reformatting) of the Russian Empire
- A brief historical description of the PRI
- Authorities
- Two points of view on the October coup
- The question of guilt for the October coup
- 16. Putinism from the point of view of sociobiology
- Market relations and democracy
- Nobody could do anything
- Liberals and neoliberals
- Why did it happen
- Impossibility of evolution of elites