Re: transmission

From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Fri 16 May 2003 - 17:24:29 GMT

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    > On Thursday, May 15, 2003, at 04:51 PM, Dace wrote:
    >
    > > So why are you promoting cultural behaviorism?
    >
    > It must look like that, I suppose, but, I'm not. I am promoting
    > culture as having evolutionary processes, which is what I thought
    > memetics was all about. I have to include behaviorism (in the form of
    > behavior as an agent of cultural evolution), because the human animal
    > is an agent in cultural evolution, and like all animals on this
    > planet, is imbued with behaviors.
    >
    > But I am not declaring that there is no agency of 'free-will' or
    > choice, or individualism, or that all behaviors are hard-wired.
    >
    > I suppose, yes, I am declaring that, because culture commands venues
    > of performance, that there is a lack of freedom in any cultural
    > performance, but, that is also ill-expressed, as the performance
    > itself can be totally free (which is the case in all aleatory
    > happenstances and accidents), but the continuation of culture depends
    > upon the control of the parameters to the extent that quite often,
    > people are trained to perform in quite rigid ways, a la all
    > orthodoxies.
    >
    > Anyway, I'm not promoting cultural behaviorism.
    >
    > - Wade
    >
    But memetics, according to Dawkins, Dennett, Brodie, Lynch, Aunger, Blackmore, etc. is about BOTH the cognitive evolution/selection AND the behavioral proliferation of ideas/information, and that is what I'M promoting. The ideational and the actional are BOTH ESSENTIAL for the process to function, and NEITHER can be reasonably denied.
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