Concept
The local fitness criteria at each selection gate: emotional valence, identity reinforcement, status, action affordance, novelty, controversy. None coordinated, none particularly interested in truth-preservation.
Connections
- Defined in: The Information Landscape, Transport vs. Selection
- Discussed in: Ch 7 — Emotional Memetics As The Floor, Ch 5b — Selection As The Other Engine
- Supported by: The Misinformation Age
- Pressure-tested by: Memetics — a critique, Not Born Yesterday
- Evidenced by: Amusing Ourselves to Death, An epidemiological approach to model viral propagation of memes, Information Evolution in Social Media, Memetics — a critique, Psychology of Virality
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