<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<div name="messageBodySection">
<div dir="auto">Culture is the result of info-autopoiesis. Culture is immanent to information and labour. </div>
</div>
<div name="messageSignatureSection"><br />
<div dir="auto">Kind regards,</div>
<div dir="auto">Jaime
<div dir="auto"> -- </div>
<div dir="auto">Jaime F. Cárdenas-García, PhD, PE JFCardenasGarcia@gmail.com </div>
<div dir="auto">(240) 498-7556 (cell)</div>
</div>
</div>
<div name="messageReplySection">On Jun 8, 2020, 10:09 PM -0400, Howard Bloom <howlbloom@aol.com>, wrote:<br />
<blockquote type="cite" style="border-left-color: grey; border-left-width: thin; border-left-style: solid; margin: 5px 5px;padding-left: 10px;">
<div style="color:black;font: 10pt Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">culture provides an extension to individual memory.
<div><br /></div>
<div>cullture and the technologies that carl sagan calls extracranial storage, from writing and paintings to computer files. </div>
<div><br /></div>
<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>
<div><span style="color: rgb(77, 81, 86); font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div>
<div><span style="color: rgb(77, 81, 86); font-size: 14px;">with warmth and oomph--howard</span><br />
<br />
<br />
<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 />
<br />
<div id="yiv3969426027">
<div>
<div class="yiv3969426027moz-cite-prefix">Thanks Krassimir for your interest. This other link should work (free access for 50 days):</div>
<div class="yiv3969426027moz-cite-prefix"><br clear="none" /></div>
<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>
<div class="yiv3969426027moz-cite-prefix"><br clear="none" /></div>
<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" /></div>
<div class="yiv3969426027moz-cite-prefix"><br clear="none" /></div>
<div class="yiv3969426027moz-cite-prefix">
<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;" xml:lang="EN-US">3. Cognitive limitation and forgetfulness underlie cultural dynamics.</span></i> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;" xml:lang="EN-US">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;" xml:lang="EN-US">5. A new, astonishing fact in the succession of generations.</span></i> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;" xml:lang="EN-US">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" /></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;" xml:lang="EN-US">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;" xml:lang="EN-US">--Pedro<br clear="none" /></span></div>
<br clear="none" /></div>
<div class="yiv3969426027moz-cite-prefix">El 04/06/2020 a las 23:55, Krassimir Markov escribió:<br clear="none" /></div>
<blockquote type="cite"></blockquote>
</div>
<div>
<div class="yiv3969426027yqt7683214146" id="yiv3969426027yqt10375">
<div dir="ltr">
<div style="FONT-SIZE:14pt;FONT-FAMILY:'Calibri';COLOR:#000000;">
<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>
<div><font size="4"><span style=""></span></font> </div>
<div><font size="4"><span style=""></span></font> </div>
<div><font size="4"><span style=""></span></font> </div>
<div style="FONT-SIZE:small;TEXT-DECORATION:none;FONT-WEIGHT:normal;COLOR:#000000;FONT-STYLE:normal;DISPLAY:inline;">
<div style="FONT:10pt tahoma;">
<div> </div>
<div> </div>
<div> </div>
<div> </div>
<div style="BACKGROUND:#f5f5f5;">
<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>
</div>
</div>
<div> </div>
</div>
<div style="FONT-SIZE:small;TEXT-DECORATION:none;FONT-WEIGHT:normal;COLOR:#000000;FONT-STYLE:normal;DISPLAY:inline;">
<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" /></div>
<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" /></div>
<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>
<div class="yiv3969426027MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM:6pt;TEXT-ALIGN:justify;LINE-HEIGHT:16pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE:12pt;" xml:lang="EN-US">Best regards--Pedro<br clear="none" /></span></div>
<pre class="yiv3969426027moz-signature">--
-------------------------------------------------
Pedro C. Marijuán
Grupo de Bioinformación / Bioinformation Group
<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="yiv3969426027moz-txt-link-abbreviated" ymailto="mailto:pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es" target="_blank" href="mailto:pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es">pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es</a>
<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="yiv3969426027moz-txt-link-freetext" target="_blank" href="http://sites.google.com/site/pedrocmarijuan/">http://sites.google.com/site/pedrocmarijuan/</a>
------------------------------------------------- </pre>
<div id="yiv3969426027DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br clear="none" />
<table style="BORDER-TOP:#d3d4de 1px solid;COLOR:#000000;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="WIDTH:55px;PADDING-TOP:18px;"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient"><img style="min-height:29px;WIDTH:46px;" alt="" src="https://ipmcdn.avast.com/images/icons/icon-envelope-tick-round-orange-animated-no-repeat-v1.gif" width="46" height="29" /></a></td>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="FONT-SIZE:13px;FONT-FAMILY:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;WIDTH:470px;COLOR:#41424e;PADDING-TOP:17px;LINE-HEIGHT:18px;">Libre de virus. <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="COLOR:#4453ea;" target="_blank" href="https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient">www.avast.com</a></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
<div></div>
<hr />
_______________________________________________<br clear="none" />
Fis mailing list<br clear="none" />
<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="yiv3969426027moz-txt-link-abbreviated" ymailto="mailto:Fis@listas.unizar.es" target="_blank" href="mailto:Fis@listas.unizar.es">Fis@listas.unizar.es</a><br clear="none" />
<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="yiv3969426027moz-txt-link-freetext" target="_blank" href="http://listas.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis">http://listas.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis</a><br clear="none" />
----------<br clear="none" />
INFORMACISN SOBRE PROTECCISN DE DATOS DE CARACTER PERSONAL<br clear="none" />
<br clear="none" />
Ud. recibe este correo por pertenecer a una lista de correo gestionada por la Universidad de Zaragoza.<br clear="none" />
Puede encontrar toda la informacisn sobre como tratamos sus datos en el siguiente enlace: <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="yiv3969426027moz-txt-link-freetext" target="_blank" href="https://sicuz.unizar.es/informacion-sobre-proteccion-de-datos-de-caracter-personal-en-listas">https://sicuz.unizar.es/informacion-sobre-proteccion-de-datos-de-caracter-personal-en-listas</a><br clear="none" />
Recuerde que si esta suscrito a una lista voluntaria Ud. puede darse de baja desde la propia aplicacisn en el momento en que lo desee.<br clear="none" />
<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="yiv3969426027moz-txt-link-freetext" target="_blank" href="http://listas.unizar.es/">http://listas.unizar.es</a><br clear="none" />
----------<br clear="none" /></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div><br clear="none" /></div>
<pre class="yiv3969426027moz-signature">--
-------------------------------------------------
Pedro C. Marijuán
Grupo de Bioinformación / Bioinformation Group
<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="yiv3969426027moz-txt-link-abbreviated" ymailto="mailto:pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es" target="_blank" href="mailto:pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es">pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es</a>
<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="yiv3969426027moz-txt-link-freetext" target="_blank" href="http://sites.google.com/site/pedrocmarijuan/">http://sites.google.com/site/pedrocmarijuan/</a>
------------------------------------------------- </pre></div>
</div>
<div class="yqt7683214146" id="yqt42183">_______________________________________________<br clear="none" />
Fis mailing list<br clear="none" />
<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Fis@listas.unizar.es" href="mailto:Fis@listas.unizar.es">Fis@listas.unizar.es</a><br clear="none" />
<a shape="rect" href="http://listas.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis" target="_blank">http://listas.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis</a><br clear="none" />
----------<br clear="none" />
INFORMACIÓN SOBRE PROTECCIÓN DE DATOS DE CARÁCTER PERSONAL<br clear="none" />
<br clear="none" />
Ud. recibe este correo por pertenecer a una lista de correo gestionada por la Universidad de Zaragoza.<br clear="none" />
Puede encontrar toda la información sobre como tratamos sus datos en el siguiente enlace: <a shape="rect" href="https://sicuz.unizar.es/informacion-sobre-proteccion-de-datos-de-caracter-personal-en-listas" target="_blank">https://sicuz.unizar.es/informacion-sobre-proteccion-de-datos-de-caracter-personal-en-listas</a><br clear="none" />
Recuerde que si está suscrito a una lista voluntaria Ud. puede darse de baja desde la propia aplicación en el momento en que lo desee.<br clear="none" />
<a shape="rect" href="http://listas.unizar.es/" target="_blank">http://listas.unizar.es</a><br clear="none" />
----------<br clear="none" /></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
_______________________________________________<br />
Fis mailing list<br />
Fis@listas.unizar.es<br />
http://listas.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis<br />
----------<br />
INFORMACI�N SOBRE PROTECCI�N DE DATOS DE CAR�CTER PERSONAL<br />
<br />
Ud. recibe este correo por pertenecer a una lista de correo gestionada por la Universidad de Zaragoza.<br />
Puede encontrar toda la informaci�n sobre como tratamos sus datos en el siguiente enlace: https://sicuz.unizar.es/informacion-sobre-proteccion-de-datos-de-caracter-personal-en-listas<br />
Recuerde que si est� suscrito a una lista voluntaria Ud. puede darse de baja desde la propia aplicaci�n en el momento en que lo desee.<br />
http://listas.unizar.es<br />
----------<br /></blockquote>
</div>
</body>
</html>