tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4367190233877799632.post1312809409476022038..comments2024-02-27T09:51:03.152-08:00Comments on On Memetics: Refactoring scienceTim Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06623536372084468307noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4367190233877799632.post-87219295124575333522015-04-19T14:06:11.538-07:002015-04-19T14:06:11.538-07:00This is an important blog post. Code refactoring (...This is an important blog post. Code refactoring (the bane of my life) is practical for software application code in reuse and redundancy elimination. But I think you are are touching on something far more important about both a more generalised Darwinism and its (re)cognition (particularly by academia). <br /><br />Firstly, cultural evolution may not just be some poetic metaphor of biological evolution, as some would have it. Rather, these are two parallel "species" that inherit evolutionary mechanisms form from a less-derieved "genus". Object-orientation overlaps Linneanism (and genre theory), and we might consider a structure preserving morphism (cf category theory), via a mechanism Dawkins called the "meme". <br /><br />Secondly, I envisage that the lambda calculus might actually have some explanatory value. Beyond delegate functions in computer programming languages, alpha conversion and beta reduction (and other goodies) seem to give insight into how the minds abstract symbolic data types behave and interact. Possibly this is what dreaming is concerned with. <br /><br />As such may offer some algebraic way of notating the objects of memetics (the underlying code of mind and culture), then I sense this area is a conversation worth pursuing. salimanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10512109696789865793noreply@blogger.com