RE: evolution

From: Lawrence DeBivort (debivort@umd5.umd.edu)
Date: Sun 08 Dec 2002 - 20:19:56 GMT

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    Hi, Wade ...is this deja lu?

    Still pondering the 'contritely obtuse and sardonic'!

    Cheers, Lawry

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk [mailto:fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk]On Behalf
    > Of Wade T.Smith
    > Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2002 1:02 PM
    > To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    > Subject: Re: evolution
    >
    >
    >
    > 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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