On Memetics

Survivalism and hedonism are doctrines surrounding fitness maximization and pleasure maximization respectively. Both schools vary along ...

How do parasites avoid destruction at the hands of the host immune systems? Of course there are many ways, but one way is to pretend to be p...

The organic realm doesn't have much of a problem with monopolies. If any one creature becomes very popular, parasites rise up and take i...

Most theorists agree that voting in national elections is an irrational activity. You gain more by doing other things besides ticking boxes ...

Many machine intelligence enthusiasts seem to think that intelligence is what led to our domination of the planet. For example, here is Shan...

I've long opposed the laws that criminalize information crimes. I make an effort to put my content into the public domain wherever I ca...

To date, evolutionary psychology has mostly avoided the wrath of those sensitive to race issues by avoiding differences between human popula...

Splitting and simplification are common operations which scientists routinely apply. Splitting can be applied to almost anything, but it is ...

For a long time, immune system evolution and brain evolution were some of the best documented-examples of evolution taking place within orga...

Evolutionary biology is intimately involved with the topic of how information about environments is transmitted down the generations. There...

This post is about a topic in symbiology - symbiont restraint of host. The idea applies to both organic and cultural symbionts, so I will at...

Looking at what the internet thinks about NLP (Neuro-linguistic programming) suggests that it has decided that NLP is pseudoscience. NLP ...

I've long supported the idea of evolutionary progress . I've previously argued that cultural evolution will cause a reexamination of...

The handicap principle has proved to have some merit in the organic realm. Handicaps can be a form of costly signaling. However handicaps do...

Recapitulation theory refers to the idea that organism development recapitulates evolutionary history. As Ernst Haeckel's put it, ...

There are still a lot of people who are totally confused about cultural evolution. Whether due to ignorance, stupidity, bad teaching, or wha...

It is easier to destroy than it is to create. If similar efforts expended on creation and destruction, the destructive change is often are b...

Some say evolution is a theory, others say it is a fact. I tend to regard evolution as a framework. It is OK to regard evolution as a theory...

A cryptic title - but this post is about applying models of universal computation to universal Darwinism. Most versions of universal Darwi...

From a biological perspective, ethical systems play several functional roles for their users. In particular, ethics allows signalling virt...