From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Sun 08 Dec 2002 - 18:01:39 GMT
On Sunday, December 8, 2002, at 12:34 PM, Lawrence DeBivort wrote:
> Don't forget the simple matter of individually created vision,
> persuasion,
> planning and decision-making. These introduce new elements into the
> evolutionary process, and I would not be surprised if some day way in
> the
> future, it is realized that these came to play a greater current role in
> human evolution than the traditional 'natural' unconscious processes of
> evolution, mutation and selection. For lack of a better term, I call
> these
> new elements, and the way they are managed, evolutionary development, or
> conscious evolution.
Am I correct in saying that you feel no impulse to call these new
element things 'memes'? Or were you being contritely obtuse and sardonic?
- Wade
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