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That isn't correct. Culture is learning from other people's mistakes. The only question is whether the human can and is willing to accept the lessons (and whether the lessons are correct).


Culture is comprised of many things, and some similar things, but not that. By definition, culture is merely a collective persistence, and therefor inherently superficial. Culture cannot capacitate “learning” or even lessons. Culture is limited to memetic abstractions, with a lot of alleged noise. Insofar as culture supports persistence of worthwhile norms, it would be limited to evolutionary adaptation (survival of the fittest). It’s important to distinguish to avoid the fallacy of argumentum ad populum.




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