Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id KAA18810 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Thu, 24 Aug 2000 10:04:08 +0100 Message-ID: <002701c00dae$35ebf2a0$3d0bbed4@default> From: "Kenneth Van Oost" <Kenneth.Van.Oost@village.uunet.be> To: "memetics" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Changing threads/ American Nationalism !? Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 11:31:23 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
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> > Derek, hope I didn 't scare you, though !!
> > I just meant, that the memetic transmission is in some sense Lamarckian.
> > American citizins " copy the actions " which their government throwns
upon
> > them, not the instructions which political brains held at the time
making
> > those
> > actions.
> > And Derek, you are not responsible to put Lamarckism back on track, it
is
> > just that American political thought is enbedded in some Lamarckian
> primeval
> > soup. And Lamarckism is " a new thread ", yes thanks to us, we use
> > Lamarckian principles in order to explain some events happening in
> cultural
> > and social exchange, don 't we !?
> > Please check out John Wilkins' essay " The appearance of Lamarckism
> in the evolution of culture ".
> Maybe the implications of such a thread are not clear as yet, but we can
't
> deny their consequences, can we !?
> If we do that, we are no better than those who discredited Lamarck in the
> first place. It is maby a result of that our brains are set to Darwinism
!?
> Like I said, some parts of the cultural process seems to be Lamarckian, it
> is up to us to solve the mistery...
>
> > Regards,
> >
> > Kenneth
> >
> > ( I am, because we are)
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Gatherer, D. (Derek) <D.Gatherer@organon.nhe.akzonobel.nl>
> > To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
> > Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 8:37 AM
> > Subject: RE: Changing threads/ American Nationalism !?
> >
> >
> > > Kenneth:
> > > Remerber, it is only for a few years now that Lamarckism is back on
> track
> > > and that is due to us, the memetisists !
> > >
> > > Derek:
> > > Lamarckism is back on track? Since when? And it's due to us? How?
I
> > hope
> > > I am never responsible for putting Lamarckism back on track.
> > >
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