Universal Darwinism (Evolution 🧬)

Universal Darwinism, also known as generalized Darwinism, universal selection theory, or Darwinian metaphysics, is a variety of approaches that extend the theory of Darwinism beyond its original domain of biological evolution on Earth. Universal Darwinism aims to formulate a generalized version of the mechanisms of variation, sele...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Darwinism

#UniversalDarwinism #Darwinism #Evolution #FringeScience #EvolutionaryBiology

Universal Darwinism (Evolution 🧬)

Universal Darwinism, also known as generalized Darwinism, universal selection theory, or Darwinian metaphysics, is a variety of approaches that extend the theory of Darwinism beyond its original domain of biological evolution on Earth. Universal Darwinism aims to formulate a generalized version of the mechanisms of variation, sele...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Darwinism

#UniversalDarwinism #Darwinism #Evolution #FringeScience #EvolutionaryBiology

@feonixrift I don't see that as optimal.

Information (good and bad) spreads evolutionarily, as with speciation _or_ disease. (Both are themselves propogation of information and its resultant behavioural manifestations.)

Adam Kucharski's new book is only the latest exploration of this idea:

https://www.worldcat.org/title/rules-of-contagion-why-things-spread-and-whythey-stop/oclc/1135576436

More generally see #UniversalDarwinism and notions of information-as-epidemic dating to at least the early 1960s (I need to dig out references).

@natecull