Basics – Evolution Systems

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It seems both the visible and invisible (The Visible and Invisible. Spirit Over Chaos) are run by a very simple mechanism, the evolution.

Evolution is a framework where entities ‘living’ inside the system are capable of reproduction, to copy themselves to form new entities. There are very well defined rules of what can be considered an evolution system discussed later in a separate post.

Here we look at the known evolution systems today, as an introduction.

Biological evolution, through genes is very common to us. This is an evolution system where biologically living organisms found in nature are reproducing to maintain their species.

There is another system called the evolution of thoughts, through memes. It is well known but maybe a little bit unfamiliar for some, who can read more about in Wikipedia. Memes are ideas and concepts living in our mind, they are intellectual entities based on we, humans gather knowledge and communicate. Not everything we have in our brains as knowledge and information is a meme, but the most important part of our perception, ideas and thoughts, identity and belief systems, are made by memes. When we want to communicate something really interesting, a really new concept we use memes to transmit our messages. Interesting thoughts which are immediately stored in our knowledge system are also memes.

Since genes form the biological evolution system, memes do form the cultural evolution. Culture is the integral part of our living — we are built from nature and nurture. A child grown outside culture won’t talk and understand words and cannot be considered part of our civilisation.
The term mon(e) probably is less known than genes and memes. It was invented by Mérö László a Hungarian scientist in his book “The Living Money” (2004, no English translation yet) and, as genes and memes, mon(e)s are the basic mechanisms of the evolution of capital.

Mérö, one of Hungary’s most brilliant minds today (and Hungary has 18 Nobel Prize winners for a population of 10 millions) has an interdisciplinary academic curriculum vitae, and in the same time he is an entrepreneur too.

He demonstrates in his book the nature of the capital (do not confound with money which is only an instance of the capital) is 100% similar to the nature of the biological and mental evolution, and introduces the term of capital evolution. His main idea is that mon(e)s — the basic factor in the evolution of the capital as genes and memes are in other evolution systems — are capable to reproduce as living organisms and thoughts do, forming sophisticated systems like the genes in biology and memes in mind. Let’s call mon(e)s living organisms corporations.

So far we have three systems of evolution, who forms the human race (biological evolution), culture (evolution of thoughts) and capitalism (evolution of capital).

If we take a closer look on these, we can affirm in today’s Western civilisation the dominant evolution system is capitalism. Corporations through meme manipulation (mass media — see theyrule.net ) are forming our culture of consummation. Capitalism through financing the majority of scientific research & development projects (nanotechnology, robotics, artificial intelligence, …) exclusively according to their interests, are moving our world towards singularity and transhumanism — where our biological existence will be definitively questioned. In this way they are ruling both our biological evolution.

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In this context it is very actual to analyse the past issues posted in this blog.