A rare perspective on the interplay between genetics and environement

[Magnetic Synthesizer]

Approximate premises:

 

Genetics have the highest inertia (as in, in large part, they do not change quickly).

 

Most of the Environment is not as inert (parental, social, economic variables)

 

I found a useful analogy: 

 

Genetics determine the way newborns act to the environment and to proximate epigenetic variation.

This is analogous to how the laws of nature affect how the matter and energy behaves in the weather relative to their environment (the other particles and energies).

While a small change in the environment can have cause a tornado at the other end of the planet, (IN THE END) the laws of nature along with more permanent aspects of the environment determine the overall picture (rate of events, average temperature, rate and size of variations, universal patterns, stability).

In the same way, a wild change of one individual's childhood can cause big consequences (being at the right place, right time), and the overall initial instance of all individuals in a group can shape a difference for a time. BUT IN THE END, the genetic differences mark how the group is.

 

In other words, when two groups of variables effect each other, the most inert has the most power of determination as to what the long-run result is (because it's determination extends through it's changing of the other much more than the other's determination extends through the most inert variable)

 

So in the short term, wide variations in an individual's experience can cause differences in the short-term that ripple consequences in the group. It is also possible that the wave of consequence set by the difference in the environment hits a wall, as in is unable to change certain things and eventually, the difference it causes dies out and returns to the mean.

This would happen if social organization needs the continuous existence of certain bio-psychological predispositions to be maintained. Meaning that if you replaced all humans with chimps (and gave them the same memories of their position in the social organization) the social organization will rapidly change despite no change in the environment because it is akin to having changed the laws of physics of the weather (even if the arrangement of matter and energy is not changed).

 

This applies to even small changes in genetics, as the difference between various humans.

 

Now there are some variables of the environment that are even more permanent and inert than most of genetics. These determine long-run results over even more vast periods of time (we zoom-out again) where more permanent features of the environment determine long-term evolution and is untouched by the puny little tiny disturbances of environmental variations.

 

 

This is more difficult with humans because animals have a lot of genetics and a very small memetic (google it, it's an excellent word) world.

While humans have a huge eco-system of memes on top of the eco-system of genes. However, the eco-system of ideas can change VERY fast, while the genes take more time.

While not being an expert, I've heard of evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS).

Given the huge size of the human memetic flora, it is plausible that there exists multiple ESSs for one set of genetics by each using different memetics. In other words, it is possible that a population with a set of genes is capable of multiple evolutionarily strategicly stable  (ESSs) combinations of that set of genes and different set of culture of ideas.

 

This is important because if it's true, then one's efforts to change a society through intellectual dialogue are not futile temporary variations.

 

This is important because it needs to be true, that a free anarcho-capitalist society can be evolutionarily strategicly stable  (or, in other words, compatible) with the genetics of a population, for it to be achievable. If it is true, then one's goal is to learn how to steer the ideas of a population into the stable set (that tends to gravitate back to its stable point) that leads to the memetic-genetic combination of an anarcho-capitalist population. memetic-genetic combination refers to a combination of genetics and ideas in the context of intelligent life.

I'm out of time now. No revision .

[ofd]

Different mating strategies can have huge consequences on social behaviour over a few generations. The prohibition of cousin marriage in Western Europe led to the creation of nuclear families and finally to a more freedom-minded mindset compared to regions where this was not outlawed.

[Jsbrads]

Are you saying that a society like Ancient Greece or similarly Afghanistan which might raise their next generation by starting these new personalities by thru infant neglect, toddler abuse, prepubescent rape, in a rigid society where the smartest and most outspoken are murdered... will somehow succeed better because of genetics?

While a society that treasures its children, attentive to infants, encouraging of toddlers, strictly suppressive of prepubescent sex, protects free speech, seeks nonaggression... will end up worse off in the long term because of genetics?