Copying is the foundational intelectual activity. Arguably copying enables natural language and culture. The world wide human network is engaged in a large scal

Copying is the foundational intelectual activity. Arguably copying enables natural language and culture. The world wide human network is engaged in a large scale genetic algorithm founded on copying. Porting successful features serves as an effective filter for bad ideas. Good ideas thrive and are copied everywhere, bad ideas get few copies and eventually die in obscurity.