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On 6 Feb 2001, at 13:43, Dr Able Lawrence wrote:
>
> The rise in human capabilities is not because any human individual has
> become smarter than earlier but we are standing on the shoulder of
> previous generations.
>
> We have only become better at recording ,storing and disseminating
> information.
>
> So all human advances can be attributed to information technology
> although the word itself got coined only recently at Carnegie mellon
>
And tools, languages and texts are kinds of memes.
>
>
> On Mon, 5 Feb 2001 joedees@bellsouth.net wrote:
>
> > On 5 Feb 2001, at 10:21, Bill Spight wrote:
> >
> > > Dear Joe,
> > >
> > > > memetic evolution being
> > > > any more robust than genetic evolution (and it must be, to
> > > > supercede it)
> > >
> > > Clarification, please. :-) What do you mean by "robust"? And how
> > > do you think memetic evolution supercedes genetic evolution?
> > >
> > > Many thanks,
> > >
> > > Bill
> > >
> > Compare the increases in human capacities over the past 50k
> > years with those of the 2mil preceding, and I think that it will
> > become clear.
> > >
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> Senior Resident
> Clinical Immunology
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