SurvivabilityDoesNotEqualTruth
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The intuition behind EvolutionaryEpistemology is that the survival of an idea or meme corresponds to its truth.
For some value of truth. (I like PoppersTruth)
BUT ...
there are AgentBasedModelling simulations that can show how false beliefs thrive and outperform true beliefs. (I need to find the references, I saw them at a conference in the 90s)
Survivability of memes does not equal or necessarily tend towards truth ...
hence ...