Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id HAA04469 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Thu, 1 Jun 2000 07:20:25 +0100 From: Robin Faichney <robin@faichney.demon.co.uk> Organization: Reborn Technology To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: What is it good for? Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 07:10:31 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <00060107154400.00407@faichney> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
As often happens, I thought of a neat answer to something I saw here,
long after deleting the message and shutting down the machine.
Anyway, for the doubters among us, memetics explains the spread of
patterns of behaviour through a population without invoking the
subjective spectre of the mind, without involving either consciousness
or free will. But don't worry, it doesn't compromise your freedom,
because due to non-linearities etc, individual cases will always be
too complex to be predicted.
-- 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
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