Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id IAA08494 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Mon, 19 Feb 2001 08:44:30 GMT Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 08:39:39 +0000 To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: Darwinian evolution vs memetic evolution Message-ID: <20010219083939.B1267@reborntechnology.co.uk> References: <20010218013723.AAA5371@camailp.harvard.edu@[205.240.180.178]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.12i In-Reply-To: <20010218013723.AAA5371@camailp.harvard.edu@[205.240.180.178]>; from wade_smith@harvard.edu on Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 08:37:23PM -0500 From: Robin Faichney <robin@reborntechnology.co.uk> Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 08:37:23PM -0500, Wade T.Smith wrote:
> Hi Robin Faichney -
>
> >Surely all "fitness" means is that, in any given context, some things
> >are more stable than others -- "fit" is what we call the stable ones.
>
> And what, pray tell, is stable?
Darwin's "survival of the fittest" is really a special case of a more
general law of survival of the stable. The universe is populated by
stable things. Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, first edition, p13.
What is fit is what is stable is what survives.
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