Germs, Genes, and Memes: Function and Fitness Dynamics on Information Networks
| العنوان: | Germs, Genes, and Memes: Function and Fitness Dynamics on Information Networks |
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| المؤلفون: | Daniel J. Singer, Christopher Reade, Patrick Grim, Stephen K. Fisher |
| المصدر: | Philosophy of Science. 82:219-243 |
| بيانات النشر: | Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2015. |
| سنة النشر: | 2015 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Cognitive science, History, Information transfer, media_common.quotation_subject, Network structure, Information networks, Biology, Epistemology, Philosophy, History and Philosophy of Science, Dynamics (music), Infection dynamics, Function (engineering), Mechanism (sociology), media_common |
| الوصف: | Understanding the dynamics of information is crucial to many areas of research, both inside and outside of philosophy. Using computer simulations of three kinds of information, germs, genes, and memes, we show that the mechanism of information transfer often swamps network structure in terms of its effects on both the dynamics and the fitness of the information. This insight has both obvious and subtle implications for a number of questions in philosophy, including questions about the nature of information, whether there is genetic information, and how to arrange scientific communities. |
| تدمد: | 1539-767X 0031-8248 |
| DOI: | 10.1086/680486 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::47d8ec3043e9ce70c0dfef86a3d7dd61 https://doi.org/10.1086/680486 |
| Rights: | CLOSED |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi...........47d8ec3043e9ce70c0dfef86a3d7dd61 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 1539767X 00318248 |
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| DOI: | 10.1086/680486 |