Re: Darwinian evolution vs memetic evolution

From: Mark Mills (mmills@htcomp.net)
Date: Sun Feb 18 2001 - 23:15:14 GMT

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    Kenneth

    At 09:57 PM 2/18/01 +0100, you wrote:
    > > Ideas are the phenotypes of neural-memes, memory organization (neural-meme
    > > based) is the genotype.
    >
    >Wouldn 't it be better to use the viral- meme !?

    If so, it isn't obvious to me. Why does this suggest itself to you?

    >If you do you can include the immune system in your concept and the
    >passing of ideas to soma and germline wouldn 't be a problem at all.

    This sounds interesting. Can you describe it more?

    Mark

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