Re: Darwinian evolution vs memetic evolution

From: Robin Faichney (robin@reborntechnology.co.uk)
Date: Thu Feb 15 2001 - 16:50:43 GMT

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    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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    Robin Faichney
    robin@reborntechnology.co.uk
    

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