Does ADA represent a Shaper "teme"?
Does ADA represent a Shaper "teme"? Susan Blackmore proposes "temes". This points to a new form of Shaping in addition to genetic and cultural.
Quote: Earth now has three replicators - genes (the basis of life), memes (the basis of human culture) and temes (the basis of technology). I argued that the information copied by books, phones, computers and the Internet is the beginning of this third replicator and consequent new evolutionary process.
http://www.susanblackmore.co.uk/memetics/temes.htm
Quote: Earth now has three replicators - genes (the basis of life), memes (the basis of human culture) and temes (the basis of technology). I argued that the information copied by books, phones, computers and the Internet is the beginning of this third replicator and consequent new evolutionary process.
http://www.susanblackmore.co.uk/memetics/temes.htm
I believe that it is an attempt at a third, the limiting factor of technology at the moment is energy, computation by a computer is energetically expensive, hence the need for forced cooling, ADA is trying to circumvent this entropic decay by coopting a host (Klue) and using the biological replicator to bypass the technological barrier.
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