Human algorithms are contagious but not genetic
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Human algorithms are contagious but not genetic
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Re: Human algorithms are contagious but not genetic
#2A well-thought out use of the scientific method to prove, in a way, that nurture is more a more advanced tool for change than nature is.
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#3Awesome Post, thank you for sharing Adam!
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#4Perhaps human algorithms are more like proteins, assembling together according to their types.
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#5Perhaps human algorithms are more like proteins, assembling together according to their types.
This is the proper Kantian answer. Certain basic human capacities are innate (e.g. perceptual grasp of relative object size), but it is through socialization processes that these capacites are "assembled" into knowledge and meaning.
A Freudian take that applies more to behavior in the workplace is that certain drives are innate to the organism and require discharge lest tension builds up, and it is through learned "algorithms" that we find acceptable ways to relieve these tensions.
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#6A long-winded post for the well-established idea that patterns and systems of thought can be passed between people and down through generations.
Maybe I’m missing something?
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#7I know it's just an example but there is less drag the higher you go, unless you are thinking of some kind of ground-effect.
I am physically repulsed by the word "founder" when used to signify some sort of holy class of ascended beings.
Memes evolve too and have been dominant since about the invention of agriculture.
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#8A well-thought out use of the scientific method to prove, in a way, that nurture is more a more advanced tool for change than nature is.
Where's the scientific method in this article?
Re: Human algorithms are contagious but not genetic
#9A long-winded post for the well-established idea that patterns and systems of thought can be passed between people and down through generations. Maybe I’m missing something?
Are you referring to the Dawkins meme, or something else?
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#10The Trivium:
Input, Process, Output
Another name for algorithm is process. From the smallest objects to the largest, our universe follows this same pattern of as above so below.