Quote:show me the hard evidence that ideas evolve in a way analogous to natural selection.
Because everything pretty much works that way?
Whatever is left is left. What ever survives survives. It's just the process of elimination. The basic concept of natural selection is very simple.
With artificial selection we humans can, for instance, deliberately select animals to breed and so select them "artificially".
However, our actions to due this artificial selection comes down to our decisions. So what do we select our decisions with? Our thoughts. But in the end what do we select our thoughts with? More thoughts? Infinite regress.
In the end it comes down to the natural selection of the thoughts bouncing around in our brain. Because we can't select our thoughts artificially ultimately because that leads to infinite regress. Ultimately artificial selection also comes down to natural selection. The two concepts are disconnected. They are connected.
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