Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id AAA16961 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Sun, 20 Feb 2000 00:01:06 GMT To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 15:59:12 -0800 From: "Scott Chase" <hemidactylus@my-Deja.com> Message-ID: <AFLHBLMJIFEKOBAA@my-deja.com> X-Sent-Mail: off X-Mailer: MailCity Service Subject: Re: Hari Seldon X-Sender-Ip: 209.240.200.179 Organization: My Deja Email (http://www.my-deja.com:80) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Language: en Content-Length: 767 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
--On Sat, 19 Feb 2000 18:22:14 Robin Faichney wrote: > (snip) > >Whatever happened to the concept of mutation? That indispensable element of >evolution, you know? > > Misremembering (or brain farts) is mutational I assume. The problem arises though in overextending the meme-gene analogy.
Going way too far with the analogy myself, I wonder what the relative frequencies of beneficial, neutral, and deleterious memetic mutants are and whether macromutation could be a force in memetic evolution. Are there any hopeful memetic monsters. Can memetic evolution be saltational, at least as a limited subset of the phenomena considered memetic?
Scott
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