Re: Hari Seldon

From: Robin Faichney (robin@faichney.demon.co.uk)
Date: Sun Feb 20 2000 - 08:40:37 GMT

  • Next message: Robin Faichney: "Re: memetics-digest V1 #130" 

    Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id JAA17740 (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 09:04:05 GMT
From: Robin Faichney <robin@faichney.demon.co.uk>
Organization: Reborn Technology
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Hari Seldon
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 08:40:37 +0000
X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21]
Content-Type: text/plain
References: <AFLHBLMJIFEKOBAA@my-deja.com>
Message-Id: <00022008423704.00482@faichney>
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk
Precedence: bulk
Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk

    On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Scott Chase wrote:
    >--
    >
    >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.

    If there is any analogy whatsoever, surely it's that both meme and gene evolve.
    And evolution requires mutation. And if misremembering is not mutation of a
    meme, what is? 

    --
Robin Faichney

    ===============================This was distributed via the memetics list associated with the
Journal of Memetics - Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission
For information about the journal and the list (e.g. unsubscribing)
see: http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/jom-emit

    This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Sun Feb 20 2000 - 09:04:37 GMT