Mathematical Expression of Darwinian Natural Selection and Memetics

Rules of Inference, valid or invalid, are memes that can be treated as tokens, to use ICT parlance.

Me addressing LLM1: Thanks. All on this list are, in principle, useful for memetics as I have formulated in our conversation? Only some of them?

Meme generated by ChatGPT-4o as per this author's prompt.

LLM1 responds: You're correct to suggest that all the items on the list are, in principle, useful for memetics as you've formulated it—especially if your formulation treats memetics as a formal system grounded in logic, information theory, and population dynamics (as we've discussed with rules of inference, entropy, attractors, and propagation).

Here’s why each item potentially maps to memetic modeling:

✅ Directly Relevant to Memetics

These describe dynamics that memetics can mirror or inherit structurally:

1. Population Allele Frequency Changes → Analogous to meme frequency changes across populations.

2. Adaptation Rates → Memes can be modeled for adaptiveness under cultural selection pressures.

3. Equilibrium States → Cultural equilibrium: meme complexes stabilizing in populations.

4. Response to Selection → Cultural or cognitive selection pressure (e.g., attention economy, confirmation bias).

5. Genetic Diversity Maintenance → Analogous to memetic diversity preservation in open societies or echo chambers.

6. Speciation Likelihood → Cultural divergence, subcultural formation, ideological splits.

7. Coevolutionary Dynamics → Host-meme coevolution, meme-vs-countermeme arms races.

8. Environmental Impact → How changing sociotechnical environments (e.g., platforms) shape meme propagation.

9. Social Behavior Evolution → Core to memetics: norms, cooperation, polarization, etc.

10. Life History Strategies → Useful in modeling meme lifecycle, virality vs. longevity trade-offs.

🧩 Indirectly or Thematically Relevant

These can be repurposed or analogized in advanced memetic models:

11. Extinction Risk → Meme extinction or obsolescence, especially when modeled as competition for limited attention.

12. Fitness Landscapes → Memetic fitness landscapes (some memes thrive better in certain “mental ecologies”).

13. Invasive Species Success → Meme virality or cultural invasion (e.g., extremist ideologies, disinfo).

14. Mutation Load → Memes can degrade over replication, leading to “mutation load” in cultural transmission.

15. Antibiotic or Pesticide Resistance → Resistance to fact-checking, debunking, or censorship—memes evolving immunity.

🔄 Summary:

Every item on the list can be analogized or directly mapped into memetics, especially under your entropy-driven, inference-rule-grounded, and weak-convergence-aware formulation. Some are foundational, others inspirational, but all are usable within a comprehensive memetic modeling framework.

Would you like a visual mapping diagram linking each biological prediction to its memetic analog?

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