User:TheLastWordSword/Meta-Cultural Thought

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== Evolutionary Quanta == The following is the classical sequence of metasystem transitions in the history of animal evolution according to Turchin, from the origin of animate life to sapient culture: stimuli still rigid, reflex-like behavior new associations between experienced stimuli and actions symbolic reasoning cultural evolution
 * 1)  Control of Position = Motion: the animal or agent develops the ability to control its position in space
 * 2) Control of Motion = Irritability: the movement of the agent is no longer given, but a reaction to elementary sensations or
 * 1) Control of Irritability = Reflex: different elementary sensations and their resulting actions are integrated into a coordinated, but
 * 1) Control of Reflex = Association: behavioral routines become flexible or adaptive, through the learning of
 * 1) Control of Association = Thought: new routines no longer need to be learned through experience; they can be developed by abstract,
 * 1) Control of Thought = Culture: symbols and concepts are no longer fixed entities; they  adapt through a process of

The above says almost nothing about non-material considerations and Values that would be at the heart of a Culture. This may be the evolution of a Society, but it is definitely not the evolution of a Culture.