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From: Robin Faichney <robin@faichney.demon.co.uk>
Organization: Reborn Technology
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Subject: Re: taxi drivers' hippocampi
Date sent: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 17:10:43 +0000
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> On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Wade T.Smith wrote:
> >
> >And, (I shudder to ask) _is_ this a hypothesis of Blackmore's- that such
> >plasticity _should_ be evidenced
>
> I think the reference was to her suggestion that evolutionary expansion of the
> brain was meme-driven, so it's not relevant where we're looking at expansion of
> an individual brain (except for Lamarkians!).
>
Of course, the evolutionary expansion of memes is brain-driven, as
well; this is what the term "co-evolutionary" means.
>
> --
> Robin Faichney
>
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