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Cultural Evolution as Distributed Computation

verfasst von : Liane Gabora

Erschienen in: Handbook of Human Computation

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The speed and transformative power of human cultural evolution is evident from the change it has wrought on our planet. This chapter proposes a human computation program aimed at (1) distinguishing algorithmic from non-algorithmic components of cultural evolution, (2) computationally modeling the algorithmic components, and amassing human solutions to the non-algorithmic (generally, creative) components, and (3) combining the two to develop human-machine hybrids with previously unforeseen computational power that can be used to solve real problems. Drawing on recent insights into the origins of evolutionary processes from biology and complexity theory, human minds are modeled as self-organizing, interacting, autopoietic networks that evolve through a Lamarckian (non-Darwinian) process of communal exchange. Existing computational models as well as directions for future research are discussed.

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Titel: Cultural Evolution as Distributed Computation
verfasst von: Liane Gabora
Verlag: Springer New York
Buch: Handbook of Human Computation
Print ISBN: 978-1-4614-8805-7

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-4614-8806-4

Copyright-Jahr: 2013
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8806-4_34

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