Change the World- Creativity
Three basic subsystems; individual, domain and field. Each interacts with the others. Individuals acquire knowledge of challenging domains. They eventually propose new knowledge for those domains. They have the potential new knowledge considered and evaluated by the field. If the proposed new knowledge is accepted by the field, it becomes part of it and is added to the domain. It will contain the new element contributed by individuals who have acquired the knowledge of the domain at an earlier point.
Human environments favorable to cultural evolution are characterized by surplus attention, by a social organization that encourages novelty, by social arrangements that easily make the retention and transmission of new variants and by informational skills far enough developed to recognize and integrate the variation within their symbol systems.
Every year 50,000 new books are published in the United States. Of these one-million manuscripts are submitted and many that don’t get published. How many are remembered in ten years? How many in one hundred years? The same is true for scholarly articles, inventions, popular songs or new products. The environment of consciousness that allows artifacts to exist is restricted and provides a severe selective process on their survival.
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