From: Scott Chase (osteopilus@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat 15 Oct 2005 - 13:42:24 GMT
--- Dace <edace@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
[snip]
>
> Don't blame me. Blame Richard Semone and his
> concept of mneme. As Scott
> has painstakingly established, this insight-- that
> personal and biological
> memory are one and the same-- originated with
> Semone.
>
Dude at least spell his name right. The analogy of
organic memory has historic interest, but it's only an
analogy. The post-Semon search for the engram has
concentrated on the ontogenetic memory trace. The
genes involved in memory aren't themselves considered
engrams by modern scientists.
>
[snip]
>
> How could a sane person believe that organisms are
> machines, that evolution
> can be reduced to random genetic mutation, that
> cellular order can be
> reduced to molecules whose behavior is as random as
> particles in a gas, and
> that we ourselves are mere hallucinations generated
> by our own brains?
>
Now there's something marginally memetic. Are we by
nature solipsistic selfplexes?
>
[snip]
>
> I agree with Gould
> that not everything can be accounted for by natural
> selection.
>
Then you'd better acknowledge reductionist concepts
like *genetic* drift and like Kimura's neutral theory
of *molecular* evolution.
Gould was aware of Ohno's evolution by *gene*
duplication, another reductionist and ingenious
notion.
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