From: Grant Callaghan (grantc4@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon 09 Dec 2002 - 17:04:54 GMT
>Subject: RE: evolution
>
>
> > 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.
>
>That means Lawrence that you see the future as more Lamarckian than
>Darwinian, in the context that, like Wade argued some time ago, creativity
>equals Lamarckism !?
>Is this what you see !?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Kenneth
>
I think we have to define memetic evolution as Lamarkian for two reasons: 1)
the "seed" of an idea is broadcast to everyone withing seeing or hearing
distance rather than selectively passed to just one individual, which these
days means everyone watching TV, going to school, reading the same book or
reading this list, etc., etc. and 2) the meme which is picked up by various
members of the public does not produce a faithful reproduction of the meme
that was spread in the broadcast. There is too much variation for it to be
a Darwinian type reproduction and evolution.
Grant
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