%0 Journal Article %1 CommonsGoodheart:2008 %A Commons, Michael Lamport %A Goodheart, Eric Andrew %D 2008 %J World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution %K culture diffusion evolution innovation theory %N 5-7 %P 406--415 %T Cultural Progress is the Result of Developmental Level of Support. %V 64 %X How is cultural progress possible? Historically, no other animal has progressed as humans have. Conventional wisdom suggests that by having language, people accumulate knowledge, which produces progress. Such Formal stage 10 wisdom begs fundamental questions. Thus, we assert the cultural necessity of levels of support, or scaffolding, for people to develop higher stages of hierarchical complexity. The resulting, wider accessibility to higher-stage action and knowledge, which requires higher stages of development to understand, enables social and scientific progress. With memes and downward assimilation, larger proportions of society gain access to advanced thinking with support, in turn enabling cultural progress.

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