You’re not just a gene machine. Your gene machine is part of you. But you don’t have genes for speaking English, tying your shoes, or buying food in a grocery store. Your genes are symbiotic with other replicators — cultural replicators — that provide those abilities.
(Yes, it’s a symbiosis. Human genes that find themselves in machines lacking a symbiotic language replicator, don’t tend to get replicated. Or, in other words, people who can’t talk [or sign, etc.] don’t get laid very much.)
And if your genes do get replicated, you’ll probably care if your cultural replicators spread along with them. (You wouldn’t want to have kids and have them raised without language or education, right?)
You’re not just a gene machine. Your gene machine is part of you. But you don’t have genes for speaking English, tying your shoes, or buying food in a grocery store. Your genes are symbiotic with other replicators — cultural replicators — that provide those abilities.
(Yes, it’s a symbiosis. Human genes that find themselves in machines lacking a symbiotic language replicator, don’t tend to get replicated. Or, in other words, people who can’t talk [or sign, etc.] don’t get laid very much.)
And if your genes do get replicated, you’ll probably care if your cultural replicators spread along with them. (You wouldn’t want to have kids and have them raised without language or education, right?)