Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id OAA09917 (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 14:52:24 GMT Message-ID: <2D1C159B783DD211808A006008062D3101745C8C@inchna.stir.ac.uk> From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk> To: "'memetics@mmu.ac.uk'" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Subject: RE: Darwinian evolution vs memetic evolution Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 14:51:48 -0000 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
< It is quite reasonable to assume that before the pharynx dropped
and allowed
> evolving humans to enunciate deep vowels such as "oh" and "ue",
> increasing our number of possible distinguishable phonemes
> beyond the number required for the phonemic principle of language
> to factorialize combinations into an open-ended polysyllabic
> language system (as part of the metamutation that hijacked the
> evolutionarily elaborated - through tool use - hand-eye coordination
> system for use byn the mouth-ear nexus), yet subsequent to our
> evolving the prerequisite self-consciousness to conceive of and
> execute ideal tool shapes such as the Acheulian hand axe, that
> our truncated sound system consisted largely verbal signs for the
> most common concrete particular classes, and that elaboration
> from that middle point in the dual directions of particularization and
> generalization happened subsequently.>
>
Joe, you do realise this is one sentence don't you?
Vincent
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