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On Memetics: The eusociality symbiont hypothesis and epistemic hygiene
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Memes and the Science of Cultural Evolution. Sunday, 21 June 2015. The eusociality symbiont hypothesis and epistemic hygiene. The eusociality symbiont hypothesis. Relating to the evolution of eusociality pictures a positive feedback loop of interactions between hosts and symbionts, with each new symbiont pulling the colony tighter together as the symbionts manipulate their hosts into coming into contact with each other in order to reproduce. We know that humans living in close proximity are more vulnerab...
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On Memetics: Alphabetic list of all posts
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Memes and the Science of Cultural Evolution. Thursday, 27 January 2011. Alphabetic list of all posts. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Lists of all posts. Chronological list of all posts. Alphabetic list of all posts. The Minds Big Bang. Genes travel in packs - memes are loners. Popularity contest: meme vs gene. An Introduction to memetics. David Deutsch - The Beginning of Infinity. Meme song: You Became A Meme. The Facebook Marketing Book. BlogPulse - blog trend tracking tool. It turns out that inser...
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On Memetics: Memetics vs semiotics
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Memes and the Science of Cultural Evolution. Tuesday, 16 June 2015. Some students of semiotics seem to be irritated by the success of the meme. (e.g. Kilpinen, E. (2014). Semiotics seems to be much more popular than memetics, and the term 'sign' seems to be much more popular than the term 'meme'. However, the term 'sign' does appear to have lost some important ground to the term 'meme'. Here's my take on how the meme managed to get a foothold. The meme concept has generated recent excitement precisely be...
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On Memetics: The meaning of heredity
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Memes and the Science of Cultural Evolution. Saturday, 25 July 2015. The meaning of heredity. I generally use the term "heredity" to refer to the transmission of traits from one generation to the next. However, I notice that some sources differ - confining the idea of "heredity" further. The Encyclopedia Britannica is explicitly DNA-gene centric: here. Reference.com confines the idea of heredity even more - to organisms that experience meiosis - with this. This is a serious conceptual mistake. Europe...
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On Memetics: 2015-06
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Memes and the Science of Cultural Evolution. Sunday, 21 June 2015. Language - missing phylum of memetics. Language should always have been the king of the subjects studied by students of memetics and cultural evolution. Speech and writing have built-in error correction mechanisms. They are some of the things which are most likely to be copied with high fidelity - and thus to exhibit cumulative adaptations as they evolve. However linguists have. 2009) by Nikolaus Ritt;. 2014) by Daniel Cloud;. Good answer...
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On Memetics: Tim Tyler: Eusociality: the symbiont hypothesis
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Memes and the Science of Cultural Evolution. Sunday, 6 July 2014. Tim Tyler: Eusociality: the symbiont hypothesis. Some have invoked group selection as an alternative idea about the origin of eusociality. However, this explanation has turned out to be a dud - in the sense that it doesn't really add anything to the kin selection explanation - because modern forms of group selection and kin selection have turned out to make equivalent predictions. This video is about. Eusocial species are well known for th...
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On Memetics: The edge of evolution
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Memes and the Science of Cultural Evolution. Monday, 15 June 2015. The edge of evolution. The domain of Darwinian evolution has expanded dramatically over the last 150 years. Darwinian evolutionary theory is now frequently applied to cultural evolution, the development of individuals and individual learning. More speculative extensions of Darwinism include ones that cover quantum physics, complex adaptive systems, cosmological natural selection and observation selection effects. To finish this article, I...
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On Memetics: 2015-07
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Memes and the Science of Cultural Evolution. Saturday, 25 July 2015. The meaning of heredity. I generally use the term "heredity" to refer to the transmission of traits from one generation to the next. However, I notice that some sources differ - confining the idea of "heredity" further. The Encyclopedia Britannica is explicitly DNA-gene centric: here. Reference.com confines the idea of heredity even more - to organisms that experience meiosis - with this. This is a serious conceptual mistake. Europe...
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On Memetics: In light of cultural evolution
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Memes and the Science of Cultural Evolution. Sunday, 5 July 2015. In light of cultural evolution. There's a recent trollish article doing the rounds titled:. The Theory Of Evolution Does Not Apply To Modern Human Beings. Basically it argues that humans don't behave as the theory of evolution dictates. For example, the more resources you give a human, the fewer children they have. Something very similar happens in the organic realm - if you add sugar to a human population. A little sugar might help wi...
