01.03 KF-H DNA, Life's Great Library
- Author
- Mark Dillerop ([email protected])
- Published
- Sun 29 Jun 2025
- Episode Link
- https://kforce-ai.podigee.io/7-01-03-life-s-great-library
| Thinker | Primary Field | Key Concept | Relevance to the Knowledge Force Hypothesis (KF-H) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Richard Dawkins | Evolutionary Biology | The Selfish Gene | Frames genes as replicators of information (knowledge) about survival, with organisms as their "survival machines." Establishes DNA as the first great knowledge substrate. |
| David Deutsch | Physics | The Beginning of Infinity | Argues that evolution is one of two known processes (the other being human thought) that creates explanatory knowledge. Highlights the fundamental significance of the evolutionary process. |
| Donald Campbell | Philosophy of Science | Evolutionary Epistemology | Posits that all knowledge acquisition, from biology to science, follows a "blind variation and selective retention" model. Provides the core mechanism for how evolution "learns." |
| Stanislas Dehaene | Cognitive Neuroscience | Neuronal Recycling | Shows that the brain adapts to new cultural inventions (like reading) by repurposing existing neural circuits, proving knowledge actively shapes its substrate and justifying the "catalysator" concept. |
| Michael Tomasello | Developmental Psychology | Shared Intentionality | Argues that unique human cognition evolved for cooperation and cultural learning, highlighting how the Knowledge Force is amplified by social networks and connectivity. |
| Stephen Jay Gould | Paleontology | Contingency in Evolution | Provides a crucial counterpoint that evolution is not a linear "march of progress," forcing the KF-H to be framed as an emergent tendency over vast timescales, not a predetermined destiny. |
| Daniel Dennett | Philosophy of Mind | Memes | Proposes that ideas ("memes") are cultural replicators analogous to genes, representing the next substrate transition for the Knowledge Force, from biology to culture. |
| Alan Turing | Mathematics / Computer Science | Morphogenesis | Demonstrated how complex patterns (information) can arise from simple chemical rules, providing a foundational model from physics/chemistry for the spontaneous emergence of order. |
