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Andrej Drapal
Understanding innovation from a memetic and
evolutionary perspective
Abstract:
Innovation happens all around the Universe and is a fundamental mechanism of
evolution. Living creatures cannot but exist and develop through innovation. Innovation
happens through mutations that make sense in retrospect only. Natural selection makes
certain mutations as benecial and other as something that was already forgotten. As
much as genes serve as quantized smaller units where innovation takes place in physical
bodies, memes serve as basic quantized units of human culture. Memes as second
replicators to genes obey similar laws of evolution and thus innovation as genes.
Innovation can be propagated only by removing obstacles on one side and by allowing
mutations to emerge as long as they do not destroy identity.
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1. Argument against conscious innovation
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