RE: meaning in memetics

From: Lawrence H. de Bivort (debivort@umd5.umd.edu)
Date: Sat Feb 19 2000 - 18:10:36 GMT

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    On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Robin Faichney wrote:

    >Did you really mean to say that our minds play a role in guiding the blind
    >forces of evolution?

    Well, of course our minds play a role in guiding our evolution. See our
    development of tools and linguistics. And we are learning how to do this
    consciously, that is, deliberately doing things to affect our evolutionary
    development.

    Lawrence de Bivort
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