Playing with two words here that @daviding is using in two central places of his work:
http://systemschanges.com/
http://coevolving.com/
I was wondering recently, what makes a system capable of evolution? Is answering this question the same as answering the question: what is life? Is evolution just a special case of change more broadly? What is the difference between change and evolution?
I guess most would think of biological systems when the topic of evolution comes up… But how do social systems evolve? is it just through the evolution of the humans that make up those systems, as if they were the genes, or do social systems also have their basis for evolution down in the DNA layer? How does this idea of memes come in here? Are memes are widely adopted in the scientific world as genes?