Behavioural programs can function as biological genes participating in the social evolution
by D.S. Andreyuk; A.A. Amelkina
International Journal of Nanotechnology (IJNT), Vol. 21, No. 1/2, 2024

Abstract: This review aims to answer the question - whether it is possible to identify such behavioural patterns or 'programs' that largely determine the trajectory of human civilisation. It's proposed to search for an answer in the neuroevolutionary paradigm. That means society being considered as a neural network where people are equivalent to neurons, social bonds are equivalent to synapses, and a social group is compared to computational circuit for making collective decisions. The structure of social groups and the general principles of information processing by the group are influenced by biological programs - genes. Genes determine typical profiles of behaviour patterns in individual group members. Besides, learned or imprinted behavioural programs can influence both the group structure and the information flow pathways. The necessity and sufficiency of three parameters are discussed: linguistic, professional, and cultural identities. They are determined by learned behaviour programs and are involved in setting up a social neural network. Whereas linguistic and professional settings are closely related to the efficiency of the individual and for this reason are under strict evolutionary control on the horizon of one or two generations, cultural code settings can have their effect on the time scale of tens and hundreds of generations, and are not so markedly related to individual efficiency. It is in them that we should look for programs setting the long-term settings of large sociomorphic neural networks - at the level of nationalities and supranational civilisations. One example of such tuning is values - a structure of priorities shared by a significant number of members of a social group. Works devoted to vectorisation and quantitative comparison of values in groups are considered.

Online publication date: Mon, 05-Feb-2024

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