On the contrary, the gene rules apply to anything that duplicates or is duplicated. Not just ideas or phenotypes. It’s a property of path-dependency. What exis

On the contrary, the gene rules apply to anything that duplicates or is duplicated. Not just ideas or phenotypes. It’s a property of path-dependency. What exists today is a function of what existed yesterday, and not what did not exist. Everything that exists “descends” from something that survived the filter of reality, where only a subset of what is possible is realized.