>>14231647>>14231748Nah, there are several problems. These are extended phenotypes, for starters.
The first is that changes that occur to buildings, cultures, etc are not preserved.
Rather, the changes that occur to their replicators do, human brains for this example.
This means the principle of natural selection does not apply to them.
The second is that cultures and buildings have functions only related to the organisms they serve. Once humans disappear, they lose their function. In the case of cultures, just die out with us, and buildings would just get damaged by the environment to nothing.
The third problem is that buildings and cultures depend on us to replicate, so they are bound to serve our evolutionary interests. Viruses hijack the mechanism of reproduction for their own purpose, and they do not evolve under and for the evolutionary pressures of other organisms.
