From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Wed 05 Mar 2003 - 19:20:36 GMT
>
> On Wednesday, March 5, 2003, at 01:18 PM, memetics-digest wrote:
>
> > This argument is kinda like saying that unless exact genetic
> > replication
> > occurs, that the theory of evolution is flawed.
>
> Kinda like, perhaps. Mostly like, no way.
>
> > But it is precisely the
> > natural selection between natural occurring deviances that allows
> > for evolution to occur.
>
> No argument, but, hmmm, we can't duplicate the conditions that this
> natural selection occured within, can we? Nope, that time/space is
> gone.
>
Which is exactly why a different environmental condition might select
for a different mutation among the subsequent alternatives - in other
wortds, evolution continues.
>
> > The difference is that, in memetics, those deviations
> > (mutations) may be intended, and indeed engineered - as can be the
> > selection.
>
> There is no _necessity_ that any of the 'mutations' in memetic
> transfer (cultural transmission) be intended or engineered, and no one
> is arguing that intention may _not_ be a part of cultural mechanisms.
>
That's right; intention cannot be a priori ruled out, and given out
experience, it would seem counterintuitive to do so.
>
> But, yes, I am arguing that intention need not be communicated, at
> all, and can be lost for all time.
>
But the communication of intention is not prohibited, and indeed, is
quite memetically ubiquitous.
>
> - 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 - 19:16:38 GMT