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Hi Chris,
You wrote,
> You don't need Lamarck if you consider a shorter timebase where the meme
> you 'see' is not an entity but a succession of copies of itself (quick
> manifestation: the way ideas change in your mind over time). New
> 'mutants'/'hybrids' occur on a short timescale - I could really push it
> and use the analogy of animation blurring many things into one...
<< IMO it is just in the mind, at a shorter timebase, that you ' see '
Lamarckism at work. In the way you change your ideas, your opinions,
your behavior, your moods etc in order to overcome certain problems,
manifestations etc...fast....you need Lamarckism.
The way you change your mind about certain problems which occur in
the yours surrounding environment is based upon acquired characteristics
concerning those problems. " New " ideas had to arise to overcome the
problem...Darwinian evolution is to slow, Lamarckism is the solution.
But I agree that the maxim of those ideas are probably genetic in origin,
but, and again....the mechanism is there and in IMO the mind is using it.
I end this with an additional question, would you please explain further
your
sentence " a shorter timebase where the meme you " see "...!?
Best,
Kenneth
( I am, because we are)
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