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Isn't the point that our ability to learn and develop cultural behaviour is pretty much instinctive? Of course humans everywhere did things recreationally, it s
by emoII 4y ago
Isn't the point that our ability to learn and develop cultural behaviour is pretty much instinctive? Of course humans everywhere did things recreationally, it seems part of what it is to be human.
- simonh 4y agoFair enough, however I’m not making a point about the origin of the behaviour, but how the behaviour manifests. Cultural behaviour can change very rapidly, and propagate through a population in significantly less than a generation, whereas instinctive behaviour takes many, many generations to develop and propagate. It’s not reasonable to equate the way they develop and propagate as being the same simply because they are both behaviour, and anyone who suggests they can clearly isn’t a credible source on the subject.