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<p class="MsoNormal">It’s not clear to me a mechanism that facilitates more and more greenhouse gas producing agents is necessarily a good thing. Anyway, it defines how fitness is defined.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Culture is a sort of field that makes people think the same way. Why have billions of agents if there are effectively a small number of forms or prototypes for them? When Europeans sneer at the U.S. for having little culture, I take
that as a compliment!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Friam <friam-bounces@redfish.com> <b>On Behalf Of
</b>Jochen Fromm<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, June 8, 2021 12:01 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [FRIAM] gene-culture coevolution<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Interesting topic but the paper contains no model: no mathematical theory, no experimental data, no agent-based model, nothing. I think it would help a lot to understand gene-culture coevolution if people would start to notice there are
indeed hidden genes in cultural evolution, but that's just my point of view. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Cultural evolution is notoriously difficult to model because it is based on language and computers can not understand language (yet). Peter Richerson and Robert Boyd have written a number of books about it and tried to model it mathematically,
but it unclear to me how far their complex models match reality. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Even religion is extremely difficult to model, although it is the most basic form of a collective organism in cultural evolution. It is difficult to model because it is based on abstract beliefs and the understanding of language. The best
model I can think of is a swarm, because the rules of swarm intelligence are isomorphic to the basic religious rules in "abstract behavior phase space" (as I try to explain in the book).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It is possible to use abstract models though which simulate strategies like cooperation and defection, collective processes like wars, tributes and taxes, etc. Robert Axelrod's tribute model for example is a classic agent-based model which
is useful to study the emergence of states and empires. I have tried to implement the model in 2 dimensions at the weekend:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://github.com/JochenFromm/SwarmIntelligence/blob/master/notebooks/Emergence%20of%20Political%20Actors.ipynb">https://github.com/JochenFromm/SwarmIntelligence/blob/master/notebooks/Emergence%20of%20Political%20Actors.ipynb</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">-J.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">From: "uǝlƃ </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Symbol",sans-serif;color:black">☤</span><span style="color:black">>$" <<a href="mailto:gepropella@gmail.com">gepropella@gmail.com</a>>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Date: 6/7/21 22:17 (GMT+01:00) <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">To: FriAM <<a href="mailto:friam@redfish.com">friam@redfish.com</a>>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Subject: [FRIAM] gene-culture coevolution
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<p class="MsoNormal">Researchers: Culture drives human evolution more than genetics<br>
<a href="https://phys.org/news/2021-06-culture-human-evolution-genetics.html">https://phys.org/news/2021-06-culture-human-evolution-genetics.html</a><br>
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Paywalled Paper:<br>
<a href="https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2021.0538">https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2021.0538</a><br>
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Accessible version:<br>
<a href="https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1039&context=eco_facpub">https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1039&context=eco_facpub</a><br>
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