Re: memetics-digest V1 #1350

From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Thu 22 May 2003 - 20:25:50 GMT

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    > From: <joedees@bellsouth.net>
    > > No, my original plan and my original meme, evolved. Mutation, which
    > > is, along with selection, required for evolution, can take place
    > > either internally or externally, although conscious intentional
    > > mutation takes place internally, and both are necessary for
    > > evolution.
    >
    > It seems I misplaced the post wherein you say that within the
    > performance- scheme there ain 't evolution, but there is, Joe !
    >
    > You have evolution, selection and mutation.
    > If you have any grundnorm, pick baseball that is popular. Despite the
    > fact you add more rules, take a few out for that matter, increase the
    > number of players up to 100 it will be baseball. We agreed upon that
    > in consensus and by definition.
    >
    > But that ain 't the thing with the performances, baseball new version,
    > played in any setting you like, will have anew performances each and
    > everytime again_ time/ space differences; stadium, audience, even
    > players ( and their minds) aren 't the same, weather, conditions of
    > the field, etc_ all evolves/ get selected/ mutates/ procreates and
    > propagates. And each time the grundnorm is used, written down, told
    > about, shown_ anew performances will arise, quite the same but
    > different. It doesn 't matter if those performances are due to
    > internal or external stimili, or are results of instinctive/ inbedded/
    > natural/ nurtured effects.
    >
    > The grundform has its own evolution too, change the rules and you get
    > it, but its a slow kind. In the fast lane there are the performances.
    > You even get evolution, selection and mutation at times and in places
    > where you or I don 't know nothing about. If somewhere in Russia kids
    > are trying out the game, you get evolution_ but are they playing !? We
    > don 't know, if they do, evolution is busy. Evolution/ mutation of the
    > game is so " fast " that the game played right now is out of date even
    > before it iever begun....
    >
    The invention of novel rules or the mutation of existing ones is logically prior to their application.
    >
    > Regards,
    >
    > Kenneth
    >
    >
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