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$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'S')o memes began to proliferate. What began as an adaptation soon became like a parasite - a new evolving entity that changed the apes and their world forever. Once memes were proliferating, individuals benefited from copying the latest and most successful ones, and then passed on any genes that helped them do so. This "memetic drive" forced their brains to get bigger and bigger, and to become adept at copying the most successful memes, eventually leading to language, art, music, ritual and religion - the successful designs of human culture.
This process was dangerous. Small brains are much more efficient if you don't have to copy anything, but once memes are around you cannot survive unless you do. So brains had to get bigger, and big brains are costly to produce, dangerous to give birth to and expensive to run.
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Evolution's third replicator: Genes, memes, and now what?
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Evolution's third replicator: Genes, memes, and now what?
by Carlhole » Fri 31 Jul 2009, 10:47:46
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')here is a new kind of information: electronically processed binary information rather than memes. There is also a new kind of copying machinery: computers and servers rather than brains. But are all three critical stages carried out by that machinery?
We're close. We may even be right on the cusp. Think of programs that write original poetry or cobble together new student essays, or programs that store information about your shopping preferences and suggest books or clothes you might like next. They may be limited in scope, dependent on human input and send their output to human brains, but they copy, select and recombine the information they handle.
Hmmm... High-speed memetic replication/evolution. Memes for machines. Machine-made memes influence evolution of human culture...
...someone load the bong.
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Re: Evolution's third replicator: Genes, memes, and now what?
by vision-master » Fri 31 Jul 2009, 11:02:25
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Re: Evolution's third replicator: Genes, memes, and now what?
by PrestonSturges » Fri 31 Jul 2009, 14:04:36
If this is true, Fox viewers should degenerate into a race of microcephalics.
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$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'G')abba gabba we accept you we accept you one of us
Gabba gabba we accept you we accept you one of us
I don't wanna be a pinhead no more I just met a nurse that I could go for
I don't wanna be a pinhead no more I just met a nurse that I could go for
I don't wanna be a pinhead no more I just met a nurse that I could go for
I don't wanna be a pinhead no more I just met a nurse that I could go for
D-U-M-B
Everyone's accusing me
I don't wanna be a pinhead no more I just met a nurse that I could go for
I don't wanna be a pinhead no more I just met a nurse that I could go for
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Re: Evolution's third replicator: Genes, memes, and now what?
by bodigami » Fri 31 Jul 2009, 17:36:50
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrestonSturges', 'I')f this is true, Fox viewers should degenerate into a race of microcephalics.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'G')abba gabba we accept you we accept you one of us
Gabba gabba we accept you we accept you one of us
I don't wanna be a pinhead no more I just met a nurse that I could go for
I don't wanna be a pinhead no more I just met a nurse that I could go for
I don't wanna be a pinhead no more I just met a nurse that I could go for
I don't wanna be a pinhead no more I just met a nurse that I could go for
D-U-M-B
Everyone's accusing me
I don't wanna be a pinhead no more I just met a nurse that I could go for
I don't wanna be a pinhead no more I just met a nurse that I could go for
The Ramones - Pinhead
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'G')abba gabba we accept you we accept you one of us
Gabba gabba we accept you we accept you one of us
I don't wanna be a pinhead no more I just met a nurse that I could go for
I don't wanna be a pinhead no more I just met a nurse that I could go for
I don't wanna be a pinhead no more I just met a nurse that I could go for
I don't wanna be a pinhead no more I just met a nurse that I could go for
D-U-M-B
Everyone's accusing me
I don't wanna be a pinhead no more I just met a nurse that I could go for
I don't wanna be a pinhead no more I just met a nurse that I could go for
The Ramones - Pinhead
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