Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id AAA22863 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Thu, 15 Feb 2001 00:48:09 GMT Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 11:35:22 -0800 From: Bill Spight <bspight@pacbell.net> Subject: Re: Darwinian evolution vs memetic evolution To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Message-id: <3A84467A.F161D9B3@pacbell.net> Organization: Saybrook Graduate School X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Yahoo;YIP052400} (Win95; U) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en References: <20010209133238.AAA11665%camailp.harvard.edu@[128.103.125.215]> <3A83F3FF.A777EA2E@bioinf.man.ac.uk> Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Dear Chris,
> 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...
>
Rapid mutation is not the same as adaptation.
Best,
Bill
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