Re: Darwinian evolution vs memetic evolution

From: William Benzon (bbenzon@mindspring.com)
Date: Tue Feb 06 2001 - 15:25:30 GMT

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Subject: Re: Darwinian evolution vs memetic evolution
From: William Benzon <bbenzon@mindspring.com>
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    on 2/6/01 8:57 AM, joedees@bellsouth.net at joedees@bellsouth.net wrote:

    > On 6 Feb 2001, at 13:22, Robin Faichney wrote:
    >
    >> On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 05:33:36AM -0600, joedees@bellsouth.net wrote:
    >>>>> Freedom means that our emergent self-conscious awareness can >
    >> exert causal control, not just over our bodies, but over our brains;
    >>
    >> Saying so doesn't make it so, Joe!
    >>
    > But evidence does tend to corroborate claims in the scientific realm.

    There's been a lot of neural work on this. See the collection< Benjamin
    Libet, Anthony Freeman, & Keith Sutherland, eds. The Volitional Brain:
    Towards a Neuroscience of Free Will. Imprint Academic, 1999.

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