Co-evolution of trust, memetics and technology

in #trust7 years ago

The advent of memes would parallel the evolution of "trust organs", used to guide and regulate how memes spread, with the human face as such an organ. The long-hair type as a mutation 60,000 years ago filled an ecological niche within the "ecology of memes", a frame for the human face, a backdrop that increased contrast. The nasal bone, adding contrast as well.

The one-way function hypothesis, proposed in the 1950s by John Nash, Kurt Gödel, and so on, is a technological equivalent of a "trust organ", and is not bound by the memory limitations of human facial cognition (dunbar´s number), and could enable trustless organization.

References

Evolution of Long Head Hair in Humans (2015

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