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At 06:00 PM 04/03/00 -0600, Joe E. Dees wrote:
>We know that anything which is modified for a chosen purpose
>becomes cultural rather than natural, and that there must be an
>internal memetic plan or design behind the external memetic
>physical-instantiation-by-modification, unless it is entirely random,
>in which case it will make no sense and serve no discernible
>purpose
Oh really? Please explain the difference between "cultural" and "natural".
When, for example, am I doing a "cultural" thing and when am I doing a
non-cultural "natural" thing?
I submit that, at a mass level, cultural change is random and those changes
that replicate are those with greater survival value: survival from the
point of view of the meme, not necessarily the host.
Lloyd
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