Re: Darwinian evolution vs memetic evolution

From: Mark Mills (mmills@htcomp.net)
Date: Sun Feb 04 2001 - 14:51:10 GMT

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    Able Lawrence,

    At 09:17 AM 2/4/01 +0530, you wrote:
    >Here the choice of the female is
    >influenced by memes and aesthetics.

    Are you equating memes and aethestics (methodologically)? Do memes and
    aethestics engage similar or dissimilar domains?

    >Choice gets into the grand theatre of evolution only after the entry of
    >memes.

    If you have a model for memes, how far back in Earth history do you go to
    place the 'entry of memes'? Prior to the entry of memes were there
    organisms with active abilities but no 'choice' options?

    Mark

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