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• Greg. Tingey commented on Unbreakable (part2)
  @ 295 So you are saying that Ayn Rand would have deliberately misinterpreted Dawkins? In the same way that all the religious do? Yes, or no, please?...
• zhochaka commented on Unbreakable (part2)
  Misunderstanding, yes. Deliberate, I don't know....
• Greg. Tingey commented on Unbreakable (part2)
  OK Fair 'nuff...
• Nestor commented on Unbreakable (part2)
  I never got around to replying last sunday so the iron is no longer hot, in any case... "What you miss here is that human behaviours (a) can be copied from other individuals, and (b) may be applied inappropriately, i.e. the wrong behavioural model may be selected for dealing with the current prevailing circumstances." No, I don't miss that at all... you seem to be assuming I conflate "natural" with "good". It's a common assumption but not one I made or believe in. Certainly freezing when a vehicle is barreling towards you is a misapplied reflex that kills humans and...
• zhochaka commented on Unbreakable (part2)
  The idea of gender-specific imitation doesn't seem silly to me. There's enough difference in the biology for it to feed on. But there can be other pressures which act against it. So there would be some general advantage in such imitation and a lot of memes (I can't think of a better label) which come along for the ride....