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A Computational Model Of Memetic Evolution: Optimizing Collective Intelligence, Noah Welsh
A Computational Model Of Memetic Evolution: Optimizing Collective Intelligence, Noah Welsh
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The purpose of this study was to create an adaptive agent based simulation modeling the processes of creative collaboration. This model aided in the development of a new evolutionary based framework through which education scholars, academics, and professionals in all disciplines and industries can work to optimize their collective ability to find creative solutions to complex problems. The basic premise follows that the process of idea exchange, parallels the role sexual reproduction in biological evolution and is essential to society's collective ability to solve complex problems. The study outlined a set of assumptions used to develop a new theory of …