RE: Lesser genes than expected

From: Lawrence DeBivort (debivort@umd5.umd.edu)
Date: Tue Feb 20 2001 - 20:38:43 GMT

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From: "Lawrence DeBivort" <debivort@umd5.umd.edu>
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Subject: RE: Lesser genes than expected
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 15:38:43 -0500
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    Kenneth Van Oost:

    Maybe intelligence, self- awareness,...has less to do with genetics but
    more with memetics.

    LdB:
    If intelligence is the ability to consider a great deal of information, find
    new and useful patterns in it, and propose courses of action that acheive
    outcomes better than those proposed by others, then memes and other
    non-memetic beliefs do have a lot to do with intelligence, beyond any
    impacts on intelligence that are genetically based. No matter how good the
    genes, if an individual's beliefs are poorly selected, they will not easily
    be able to perform in the 'intelligent' manner suggested above.

    - Lawrence

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