Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id SAA27100 (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 18:17:26 GMT Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 16:50:43 +0000 To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: Darwinian evolution vs memetic evolution Message-ID: <20010215165043.A1188@reborntechnology.co.uk> References: <20010215142051.AAA11981@camailp.harvard.edu@[128.103.125.215]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.12i In-Reply-To: <20010215142051.AAA11981@camailp.harvard.edu@[128.103.125.215]>; from wade_smith@harvard.edu on Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 09:20:49AM -0500 From: Robin Faichney <robin@reborntechnology.co.uk> Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 09:20:49AM -0500, Wade T.Smith wrote:
>
> Memes are, perhaps, one of the better ways to show one of the directions
> from which individuality springs, because, it ain't all genes and
> development, there is a real and active cultural environment, and
> separating out some elements and calling them memetic (that is, related
> to the processes of biological evolution) seems, at this point, to help
> make the chaos of culture cogently understandable.
>
> Maybe.
You're nearly converted, Wade! You just need to learn to go with the
flow, and drop the "maybe". :-)
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