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A Beginner's Guide to Culture Science
 I’ve stumbled onto a scientific field that, as far as I can tell, is still very nascent. There are many working in it, but they all use different terms & language. It’s historically been very difficult to study this rigorously and openly, but I think this is changing now. I think the missing piece is active participation from the people being studied.
I call it “culture science”, most people call it “memetics”. The core idea is that narratives & beliefs have observable, functional effects on our behavior, at the individual & societal levels. We can study the effects of these narratives, their interactions, rates of propagation, and mutations.
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Editor's Note: Human minds have not fundamentally changed in the last 10 thousand years. Religion has never left us. All human beings today are "religious" in the sense that all of our minds are hosts to narratives that have observable effects on our behavior. We cannot get rid of this any more than we can get rid of our gut microbiome, but we CAN study it, document it, and change it.
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