Month: September 2022

AUTONOMOUS MACHINES. "These machines will be as much a part of the natural world as features in the landscape or existing forms of life, and their evolution will affect the course of existing forms of life. Think of how machines are currently ramifying the nature and rate of human communication and interconnectedness." https://lnkd.in/dsMZPii View in LinkedIn

CO-EVOLUTION. "All this suggests that machines might play an unprecedented role in the next major evolutionary transition, and the challenge here is to predict and explain this role." https://lnkd.in/dsMZPii View in LinkedIn

CULTURAL TRAITS. "Some treatments of cultural evolution (e.g., sociobiology and evolutionary psychology) consider how cultural traits evolve due to their effect on biological fitness. But one can also consider how cultural traits evolve in their own right, as Dawkins did when he coined the word “meme"." https://lnkd.in/dsMZPii View in LinkedIn

"COINED by British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene (1976) as a concept for discussion of evolutionary principles in explaining the spread of ideas and cultural phenomena. Examples of memes given in the book included melodies, catchphrases, fashion, and the technology of building arches." https://lnkd.in/d6Cxzi3 View in LinkedIn

A MEME is "an idea, behavior, or style that spreads from person to person within a culture". https://lnkd.in/d6Cxzi3 View in LinkedIn

CULTURAL INHERITANCE. "A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols, or practices that can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals, or other imitable phenomena with a mimicked theme." https://lnkd.in/d6Cxzi3 View in LinkedIn

MEMES AS CULTURAL GENES. "Supporters of the concept regard memes as cultural analogues to genes in that they self-replicate, mutate, and respond to selective pressures." https://lnkd.in/d6Cxzi3 View in LinkedIn

CULTURAL REPLICONS. "Memes are “cultural replicators, the cultural equivalent of a gene, the cultural equivalent of DNA...the internet is a first-class ecology for memes to spread." (Richard Dawkins). https://lnkd.in/e9Xs9Hj View in LinkedIn

MALEABLE. "In biology, for instance, mutation and selection take place at the level of genes and organisms. But while cultural evolution also occurs at the individual level, the unit of selection — behavior — seems more susceptible to drastic change than a gene." https://lnkd.in/dnqbPdK View in LinkedIn

FACTIONS. "It is important to distinguish between those who emphasize the differences between biological and cultural evolution, and those who oppose any kind of evolutionary approach to culture. The latter extreme position holds that cultural change does not resemble biological evolution in any respect, that no parallels can (or should) be drawn between biological evolution and cultural change...this position is both theoretically and empirically untenable." https://lnkd.in/dTgbgan View in LinkedIn