Re: memetics-digest V1 #1323

From: Scott Chase (ecphoric@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon 31 Mar 2003 - 18:57:35 GMT

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    >From: Chris Taylor <Christopher.Taylor@man.ac.uk>
    >Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    >To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    >Subject: Re: memetics-digest V1 #1323
    >Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 14:43:11 +0100
    >
    >Does agency require volition?
    >
    Agency and volition are probably separable.
    >
    >And what is volition - cyanobacteria floating up and down with the light?
    >
    Did the cyanobacteria make a conscious choice among alternatives when they changed their position relative to light conditions? IIRC prokaryotes don't have organ systems such as brains which would allow them such complexity of decision. I think a recent subthread had ended at the point of whther prokaryotes had organelles.

    BTW are you the saame Christopher Taylor who co-authored a paper with Daniel Dennett, which he discusses in his recent book _Freedom Evolves_?
    >
    >Does all life have power to act in any meaningful sense? What is the
    >difference between rust and lichen?
    >
    >Wade T. Smith wrote:
    >>
    >>On Monday, March 31, 2003, at 07:23 AM, memetics-digest wrote:
    >>
    >>>I'm perfectly willing to grant agency to genes and memes.
    >>
    >>
    >>If agency is what is being granted, then, IMHO, there is no escape from
    >>the performance model of memetics. It is the only theory that supplies the
    >>active agent.
    >>
    >>- Wade
    >>
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