- Copy, with error
- Compete
- Cooperate
When applying the technologies of evolution to philosophy and politics, you can model countries as organisms. They act for their own survival and collect or compete based on relative language and philosophy. But what the leaders have yet to realize is that the power of creation percolates from the bottom. Countries are composed of individual citizens and memetic organizations. These groups are made up of individuals, but individuals can also belong to many groups. Schools of memes evolved from genetic behavior and adapted to the surrounding land and environment. Societal segments can be grouped by their connections and statistically categorized based on measurement. As human society evolves, the ultimate criteria for survival is adaptability. This is very difficult to gage and depends upon factors such as efficiency, complexity, stability, aggressiveness, and mutation. There are also scales of evolution that depend on group size and speed of communication. The random changes in the biosphere and memosphere, induce mutations dependent upon the copying rate and methods. Hopefully, at some point we will find that the use of force is not efficient and competition will be relegated to business. Some of the substrates of evolution are land, materials, money, and energy.
Differentiation and congregation are built into evolution and our nature. When a significant number of people are forced together in close quarters, as in ships or schools, cliques naturally form within the population and are intensified by the individual proximity. I suppose that these lines should exist in some distorted form distributed within localities across the country. The internet allows these geographically remote, but memetically close, individuals to link up and communicate with both speed and persistence. Harnessed correctly, these groups can be a powerful presence. Discussion should progress faster to reach better solutions because of the cross-referencing, mixing media forms, reciprocal discussion, perfect memory, and scalable participation. But the increased noise sometimes impedes communication and can cause the discussion to self focus so that corrective information is dismissed. This allows for wild speculation to grow like a small ecosystem that may stumble upon the right connections. If the noise falls, then the forrest of speculation can be weeded until the most plausible chains of thought are found. In many ways this resembles a soliton wave, where the leading edge affects the environment to pull the trailing edge. Creation + Destruction.
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
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