[FRIAM] Selective cultural processes generate adaptive heuristics

[Steve Smith]

On 4/12/22 12:19 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> The contrast between fewer replication cycles of vampires that live thousands of years vs. many generations of short-lived mortals seems related..
> Is the walk deep and informative, or is the key thing to stay away from attractors?
> If there are truly billions of individuals, then short trips can explore a large space -- if there is communication between individuals and across generations.

I have an obsessive-but-under-motivated belief in 
complexity/diversity/heterarchy as the solution to everything. It 
evidences itself here by thinking that our modern "way of being" suffers 
from a lack of multi-generational households-neighborhoods and too often 
even, a lack of interest in the voices of generations past/future.  Your 
hypothetical vampire-culture would seem to offer longer time-scale 
connections and (perhaps) attendant perspective and ?wisdom?   I don't 
know vampire-culture beyond a guilty Bram Stoker and  Anne Rice reading 
or two, but the latter definitely seems to reference this nicely...  
offering a certain mentorship role by the long-lived to the 
yet-more-mortal (armatured around blood and other lusts, of course).

Generations past (and under-mobile near-subsistence cultures today) have 
more intergenerational households and neighborhoods providing the 
heterarchical/holarchical connection/communication you suggest.   Or so 
my "just so" story relates.

The expansive breadth offered by global (near-instantaneous, global) 
communication/publication/relationship connections possibly makes up for 
that in the large, a major refactoring of problems and solutions.

I personally suffer from the lack of cross-cultural, cross-class 
experience of frequenting a neighborhood "watering hole" 
(pub/tavern/saloon) in the way Glen seems to enjoy (cultivate). My 
oldest regular drinking-philosophy buddy would be over 110 today (he 
died over 20 years ago from alcohol-related illness) and until about 5 
years ago I had a small cohort of 30ish imbibing interlocutors.  I blame 
COVID, but the reasons are probably larger and more nefarious.


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