Re: Saving the ethnosphere

From: Philip Jonkers (philipjonkers@prodigy.net)
Date: Wed May 01 2002 - 06:00:40 BST

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    Ozren:
    > IMO, this is a major memetic extinction, right there. I really want to
    > see how you can explain calling widespread destruction of cultures and
    > associated memetic contents, as "evolution".

    Allow me. Evolution knows three elements: variation, retention and
    selection.
    The latter implies a redundancy of that what has to be selected. That is,
    there are too many entities running for selection. This is where extinction
    kicks
    in, a fate beset on those entities who don't make it to be selected.

    Phil.

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