[Fis] Cultural Acceleration?

[Jaime Cardenas-Garcia]

Culture is the result of info-autopoiesis. Culture is immanent to information and labour.

Kind regards,
Jaime
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Jaime F. Cárdenas-García, PhD, PE JFCardenasGarcia at gmail.com
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On Jun 8, 2020, 10:09 PM -0400, Howard Bloom <howlbloom at aol.com>, wrote:
> culture provides an extension to individual memory.
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> cullture and the technologies that carl sagan calls extracranial storage, from writing and paintings to computer files.
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> which means that we have added tens of  zettabytes of data to human memory in just the last few years.
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> with warmth and oomph--howard
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> From: Pedro C. Marijuan <pcmarijuan.iacs at aragon.es>
> To: Krassimir Markov <markov at foibg.com>; 'fis' <fis at listas.unizar.es>
> Sent: Mon, Jun 8, 2020 8:09 am
> Subject: Re: [Fis] Cultural Acceleration?
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> Thanks Krassimir for your interest. This other link should work (free access for 50 days):
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> https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1bBBC14z5HxIgJ
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> Below I have included two of the paper's Concluding Comments. Seemingly, very few authors have explored the limits of cognition. According to Booker (2004) and Yates (1988) it is one of the weakest points of our whole scientific system. Factically, how do we transcend the limits of our individual capabilities? What collective tricks --or surrogates-- have we developed?
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> 3. Cognitive limitation and forgetfulness underlie cultural dynamics. Maintenance, decay, and replacement of cultural items are necessarily linked to forgetfulness and to the limited cognitive capability of individuals. As intuited by J.L. Borges (1944), there cannot be an unlimited capability for individual memory. The term cognit, crafted by J. Fuster (2003), is proposed in order to visualize an order of magnitude for such individual capability. What could be the average global cognits maintained by an educated individual? What kinds of cognits are needed to navigate in a cultural niche, or to follow a particular way of life? How could this cognitive limitation relate to the evolution and renewal of cultures?
> 5. A new, astonishing fact in the succession of generations. With the industrial revolution, a threshold was crossed regarding the “adjacent possible” and an exponential course was ignited for the economy, creating a higher number of new material and mental structures that have continued multiplying on an exponential basis. Each passing generation has been able to substantially and systematically increase the whole contents of its material world, adding up an entire new world to the received one. But the sheer amount of new habits necessary for social life in industrial and postindustrial societies has forced individuals to generationally absorb an almost duplicate amount of cultural presences, of cognits, in their inner mental spaces.
> Best wishes
> --Pedro
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> El 04/06/2020 a las 23:55, Krassimir Markov escribió:
> Dear Pedro and Jaime,
> Thank you for the interesting links.
> Unfortunately, the paper "SOCIOTYPE AND CULTURAL EVOLUTION ...” is not in open access and I could not read it.
> If it is possible to send me a copy I shall be very grateful.
> Friendly greetings
> Krassimir
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> From: Pedro C. Marijuan
> Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2020 12:33 PM
> To: 'fis'
> Subject: [Fis] Cultural Acceleration?
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> Dear FIS Friends,
> Jorge Navarro and me have just published a paper entitled "SOCIOTYPE AND CULTURAL EVOLUTION : The acceleration of cultural change alongside industrial revolutions"
> The link is this: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2020.104170
> And the Abstract is below.
> It contains a series of hypothesis that can be useful for our discussions. I will post some of them in next days. Also Howard Bloom has published in the same Special Issue of BioSystems (Evolutionary Dynamics of Social Systems) a very intriguing essay on "biopolitics", about the bacterial roots of the new autocracies. More will follow...
> Abstract: The present work explores, from the vantage point of the sociotype, the dramatic acceleration of cultural change alongside the successive industrial revolutions, particularly in the ongoing information era. Developed within the genotype-phenotype-sociotype conceptual triad, the sociotype means the average social environment that is adaptively demanded by the “social brain” of each individual. For there is a regularity of social interaction, centered on social bonding and talking time, which has been developed as an adaptive trait, evolutionarily rooted, related to the substantial size increase of human groups. A quantitative approach to the sociotype basic traits shows fundamental competitive interrelationships taking place within an overall “attention economy.” Approaching these figures via the Planckian Distribution Equation, they can be connected with many other competitive processes taking place in the biological, economic, and cultural realms. Concerning culture, the cognitive limits of the individual, which we consider commensurate with the sociotype general limitations, impose by themselves a strict boundary on the cultural items effectively handled by each individual, fostering the overall competition and decay. Further, the emergence of differentiated generations with ample discrepancy in styles of life, social aspirations, and dominant technologies would represent a systematic bias in the competition and replacement of cultural items. Intriguingly, the cultural acceleration detected in modern societies alongside the successive industrial revolutions, with an ostensible climax in the ongoing fourth industrial revolution –the information era– might be itself a paradoxical consequence of the sociotype’s dynamic constancy.
> Best regards--Pedro
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