Re: Darwinian evolution vs memetic evolution

From: Robin Faichney (robin@reborntechnology.co.uk)
Date: Mon Feb 19 2001 - 08:39:39 GMT

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    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.

    -- 
    Robin Faichney
    robin@reborntechnology.co.uk
    

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