Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id LAA24591 (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 11:32:18 GMT Message-ID: <3A8BBDCA.595EFE9F@bioinf.man.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 11:30:18 +0000 From: Chris Taylor <Christopher.Taylor@man.ac.uk> Organization: University of Manchester X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: Darwinian evolution vs memetic evolution References: <20010215021603.AAA12398@camailp.harvard.edu@[205.240.180.32]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Memetic fitness is the same as any other - given a set of conditions and
an environment, what works works. This is certainly the case with life;
SJ Gould's 'Wonderful Life' has some freakish creatures in it from early
ecosystems, I'll bet not one would survive today, but not because the
abiotic environment is so different, but because the rest of the
environment has evolved. Life forms the majority of life's environment,
and it all continually adapts to itself.
I always liked "For the sake of Auld Lang Syne" which I hear a lot at
New Year instead of "Fo-or Auld Lang Syne" which is the accurate version
but doesn't scan nearly so well; so the adaptation is to 'naturalise'
(into somethoing more like spoken language) a song form, by matching
each note to a syllable.
Cheers, Chris.
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