From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Wed 05 Mar 2003 - 18:14:44 GMT
>
> On Wednesday, March 5, 2003, at 01:14 AM, memetics-digest wrote:
>
> > The point is that internal and external, mind and body, are BOTH
> > necessary; mind and internality for storage, selection and mutation,
> > body and externality for communication/replication/proliferation.
> > Evolution cannot subsist in the absence of either.
>
> My view and point is that
>
> - internal and external, mind and body, are BOTH necessary; mind and
> internality for storage; body and externality for
> communication/replication/proliferation/selection/mutation. Evolution
> cannot subsist in the absence of either.
>
> Take it or leave it, but I like it, and it makes more sense to me.
>
We do not select all of our memes or reject all candidate memes
consciously, but we do so for a great many of them. Also, we do indeed
internally mutate memes. Dawkins himself did so with the evolution
meme when he applied it to ideas. We can decide to a great degree
what we will and will not store (which is why people specialize in
education), and we can decide whether or not to change what we store
before we pass it on (or not pass it on; it's largely up to us).
>
> - Wade
>
>
> ===============================================================
> 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
>
===============================================================
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
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Wed 05 Mar 2003 - 18:11:43 GMT