Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id IAA05567 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Sun, 18 Feb 2001 08:22:14 GMT X-Originating-IP: [209.240.220.240] From: "Scott Chase" <ecphoric@hotmail.com> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: Darwinian evolution vs memetic evolution Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 03:19:45 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: <F163pcQABZTW5k1Ed2800009330@hotmail.com> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 18 Feb 2001 08:19:46.0163 (UTC) FILETIME=[8D971C30:01C09983] Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>From: <joedees@bellsouth.net>
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>Subject: Re: Darwinian evolution vs memetic evolution
>Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 21:34:29 -0600
>
>On 17 Feb 2001, at 21:31, Wade T.Smith wrote:
>
> > Hi Joe E. Dees -
> >
> > >And thus begins the endless journey into the semiotic web, where each
> > >word meaning depends upon the meanings of a plethora of others,
> > >endlessly.
> >
> > Which I'll graciously if hangheadedly admit to undertaking, perhaps
> > all too often. But I remain somewhat confused about how one can talk
> > about stability within dynamic processes, although, even the river's
> > banks stay on their sides.
> >
>One may refer to stability not only as homeostasis, which is
>remaining at a particular position, but also as homeorrhesis, which
>is maintaining a particular rate of change.
>
>
(bq) "At the stage of ontogenetic development (Piaget's reference to a
subsequent section of the book omitted) the central problem is that of the
dynamic equilibrium of "channeled" formations- "homeorhesis," which
Waddington has rightly differentiated from homeostasis." (eq)
from page 12 of Jean Piaget's _Biology and Knowledge: an Essay on the
Relations between Organic Regulations and Cognitive Processes_ (1971. The
University of Chicago Press. Chicago)
I expect grumblings from a certain PhD candidate from Australia about my
reading this abysmal book by our favorite pond snail enthusiast with a
penchant for developmental psychology and the effect of James Mark Baldwin.
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