Charles Darwin meets Alan Turing and Hugh Everett here. Put differently, money allows memes to survive (i.e., the Turing principle at play) by mediating the multiverse (i.e., derived from the Everett interpretation of quantum mechanics).
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- 9-4b2a Writing is THE evolution. It’s more fast-universal-explicit in contrast to the evolution of genes.
- 9-4b3b1 Popper - ‘We let our ideas die in our place’ (another difference between memes vs genes)
- 10-2g3d1 Humans do stupid things because we can guess and create meanings. Our ability comes with a great cost of potentially doing very (infinitely) stupid things.
- On memesdevelop
- 1-1b Memes are more powerful than genes because they can out-evolve them
- 1-1c2a There is no escape we are and will be shaped by anti-rational memes
- 1-2g2k3 Genes (and memes) survive by causing people to create knowledge
- 2-1a5a Evolution doesn’t care about lifetime of each individual gene-meme carrier (its sample is beyond your own experience and any human lifetime)
- 9-1b2 Inevitable meme variation is another reason why it’s impossible to predict how people will use your work and ideas
- 9-4b2b The evolution of ideas (memes) is somewhat intentional, whereas that of genes are random AND cannot be rejected
- 10-2g3c Not all memes are rational
- 10-2g3e We are, and will be, transitioning from anti-rational memes to rational memes
- QUE5 - The modern theory of evolution based question — what replicating strategies did this meme use to get here
- On genes
- 1-1a2e The mind is universal, that means domain specific genes are unlikely
- 1-2g1e Our biological bodies are (still) encoded in genes. Often times it is helpful to understand our biological-default tendencies-biases.
- 1-2g2i Genes (life) are programs that embody the laws of physics (of their own niches)
- 1-2g2i0 Life is computation in the sense of assuming other object (i.e., genes assuming its surrounding environment)
- 1-2g2k Genes embody knowledge about their niches. Replication itself is not the fundamental significance of life.
- 1-2g2k4 Genes are (computer) programs expressed in the language of DNA instead of zeros and ones