Cultural Evolution and the Impending Singularity « Replicated Typo: "Although the exact pattern is unpredictable, there are statistical properties which are important for the functionality of the system which are reproducible. These include the percentage of nodes and overall topology. These are the things that scientists should be studying. In terms of Evolutionary Linguistics, this translates into phenomena like the effects of transmission bottlenecks and the relationship between social structure and language structure.
This is cool enough. However, these balls-in-a-petri-dish can learn."
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