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Category: Evolution and Learning

  • Factor markets, actors, and affordances.

    This article, “Factor markets, actors, and affordances” by Teppo Felin, Stuart Kauffman, Antonio Mastrogiorgio, Mariano Mastrogiorgio covers a lot of complexity/evolution based ideas that are useful in entrepreneurship and general learning.

  • Evolutionarily pragmatic cultural intelligence: David Sloan Wilson 

    Religion as an evolutionarily pragmatic cultural intelligence: Video Playlist of David Sloan Wilson 

    David Sloan Wilson asks;

    “Ïf the mind is evolved to to adopt beliefs,…what kind of beliefs will be adopted by by the evolved mind?… Will it be beliefs that have truth value or will it be beliefs that have survival and reproductive value?“

  • The logic of exploitation Vs logic of exploration.

    The logic of exploitation(CAT, GRE, etc.) is given primacy to select someone to work for logic of exploration(Research). Given the fact that the former task can be done better by computers, I don’t know about the relevance of its continued glamourification in the future.

  • The dynamics of Athletic(player) Affordances and my thoughts

    A question from @EMERGENTMVMT What should we do when an athlete is not accepting an affordance we believe exists for him/her within a particular contextual movement problem?

    Other great comments

  • Evolutionary fitness landscapes

    A fitness landscape model is a metaphor used to think about the processes of evolution acting on a biological entity.
    This entity can be viewed as moving through a search space with two kinds of decisions:

    • Explore maximum number of landscapes or maximum number of variations.
    • Exploit the most out of a particular landscape.

    This principle is applicable to entrepreneurial search for a repeatable, scalable and sustainable business models(Explore). Once a working model is created then the entrepreneurs job is to make it work. (Exploit)

    This twitter thread contains links for further exploration.

    https://twitter.com/johnywrites/status/1294719389866971136?s=20
    https://twitter.com/GerritsLasse/status/1295319317286989824?s=20

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