Abstract Although there is no necessary relation between “big data” and “monism”—the program of reducing cultural mental processes to computational biological principles—both these programs reject a dualism res extensa cogitans. Opposing this philosophy science, I have argued in the above chapter that second contingency possible relations expectations feeds back on manifest relations. This cann...

In this position paper, we explore some of the principles and mechanisms that are shared by both software evolution and biological evolution. Our goal is to highlight some of the commonalities between them, to point out some interesting questions that are raised, and to engender discussions within the software engineering research community on this topic. Our preliminary discussion suggests tha...