<div style="color:black;font: 10pt Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">culture provides an extension to individual memory.
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<div>cullture and the technologies that carl sagan calls extracranial storage, from writing and paintings to computer files. </div>
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<div>which means that we have added tens of <span style="color: rgb(77, 81, 86); font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> zettabytes</span><span style="color: rgb(77, 81, 86); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> of data to human memory in just the last few years.</span></div>
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<div><span style="color: rgb(77, 81, 86); font-size: 14px;">with warmth and oomph--howard</span><br>
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<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica;font-size:10pt;color:black">-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Pedro C. Marijuan <pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es><br>
To: Krassimir Markov <markov@foibg.com>; 'fis' <fis@listas.unizar.es><br>
Sent: Mon, Jun 8, 2020 8:09 am<br>
Subject: Re: [Fis] Cultural Acceleration?<br>
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<div class="yiv3969426027moz-cite-prefix">Thanks Krassimir for your interest.
This other link should work (free access for 50 days):</div>
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<div class="yiv3969426027moz-cite-prefix"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="yiv3969426027moz-txt-link-freetext" target="_blank" href="https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1bBBC14z5HxIgJ">https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1bBBC14z5HxIgJ</a></div>
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<div class="yiv3969426027moz-cite-prefix">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? <br clear="none">
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<div class="yiv3969426027MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:16.0pt;"><i style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;">3. Cognitive
limitation and forgetfulness underlie
cultural dynamics.</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;"> 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 <i style="">cognit</i>,
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?</span></div>
<div class="yiv3969426027MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:16.0pt;"><i style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;">5. A new,
astonishing fact in the succession
of generations. </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;">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. <br clear="none">
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<div class="yiv3969426027MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:16.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;">Best wishes</span></div>
<div class="yiv3969426027MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:16.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;">--Pedro<br clear="none">
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<div class="yiv3969426027moz-cite-prefix">El 04/06/2020 a las 23:55, Krassimir
Markov escribió:<br clear="none">
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<div><font size="4">Dear Pedro and <span style=""><font color="#222222">Jaime,</font></span></font></div>
<div><font size="4" color="#222222"><span style="">Thank
you for the interesting links.</span></font></div>
<div><font size="4" color="#222222"><span style="">Unfortunately,
the paper <font color="#000000">"SOCIOTYPE AND CULTURAL
EVOLUTION ...” is not in open access and I could not
read it.</font></span></font></div>
<div><font size="4"><span style="">If it is possible to
send me a copy I shall be very grateful.</span></font></div>
<div><font size="4"><span style="">Friendly greetings</span></font></div>
<div><font size="4"><span style="">Krassimir</span></font></div>
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<div style=""><font face="Calibri"><font size="4"><b>From:</b> </font></font><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" title="pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es" ymailto="mailto:pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es" target="_blank" href="mailto:pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es"><font size="4" face="Calibri">Pedro
C. Marijuan</font></a><font size="4" face="Calibri"> </font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri"><font size="4"><b>Sent:</b>
Thursday, June 04, 2020 12:33 PM</font></font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri"><font size="4"><b>To:</b> </font></font><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" title="fis@listas.unizar.es" ymailto="mailto:fis@listas.unizar.es" target="_blank" href="mailto:fis@listas.unizar.es"><font size="4" face="Calibri">'fis'</font></a><font size="4" face="Calibri"> </font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri"><font size="4"><b>Subject:</b>
[Fis] Cultural Acceleration?</font></font></div>
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<div>Dear FIS Friends,</div>
<div>Jorge Navarro and me have just published a paper entitled
"SOCIOTYPE AND CULTURAL EVOLUTION : The acceleration of
cultural change alongside industrial revolutions" <br clear="none">
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<div>The link is this: <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="yiv3969426027moz-txt-link-freetext" target="_blank" href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2020.104170">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2020.104170</a></div>
<div>And the Abstract is below.</div>
<div>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...<br clear="none">
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<div class="yiv3969426027MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM:6pt;TEXT-ALIGN:justify;LINE-HEIGHT:16pt;"><i><b>Abstract:
</b>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</i><i> era. </i><i>Developed
within the </i><i>genotype-phenotype-sociotype</i><i> </i><i>conceptual
triad, the sociotype</i><i> means the average social
environment that is adaptively demanded by the “social
brain” of each individual.</i><i> 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.</i></div>
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regards--Pedro<br clear="none">
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