Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id RAA24632 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Wed, 17 Jan 2001 17:16:17 GMT Subject: Re: DNA Culture .... Trivia? Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 12:13:06 -0500 x-sender: wsmith1@camail2.harvard.edu x-mailer: Claris Emailer 2.0v3, Claritas Est Veritas From: "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu> To: "memetics list" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Message-ID: <20010117171141.AAA15365@camailp.harvard.edu@[128.103.125.215]> Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
On 01/17/01 10:28, Robin Faichney said this-
>I disagree, Vincent. I think your reply is just as worthwhile as what
>stimulated it.
Sounds like a dis.
But I weren't joking.
Genetics, as an evolutionary item, is _only_ transmission through sex-
otherwise it is replication, and replication is fine amidst cells that
are duplicating and grow in a niche within an organism, to help, ignore,
or destroy it, but there is no _genetic_ replication from organism to
organism, from me to you, for instance, (even with sex in our case, uh,
yet....)
So, why? I ask, do we consider memetic replication _at all_?
Why aren't we considering memetic _sex_?
That was my question, and I really don't think it is trivial at all.
Or worthless.
- Wade
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