Re: Logic + universal evolution

From: Scott Chase (ecphoric@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Aug 17 2001 - 23:35:08 BST

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From: "Scott Chase" <ecphoric@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Logic + universal evolution
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 18:35:08 -0400
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    >From: "Dace" <edace@earthlink.net>
    >Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    >To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
    >Subject: Re: Logic + universal evolution
    >Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 12:18:08 -0700
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    >
    (snip)
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    >As this list demonstrates, humans are no less vulnerable than birds to
    >collective mentality and behavior.
    >
    >
    Not being as memocentric as some of the readership here, I don't know
    whether I'm a card-carrying member of the "collective". I'm not totally
    anti-meme, just agnostic.

    Many of us are skeptical of Sheldrake's ideas, but aside from that we have
    quite different views on other topics. A broad brush would obscure the
    differences.

    Sheldrake's ideas overlap with my interests in places (memory, evolution,
    development, etc) so I might have less clogged ears than others. I still
    don't feel MR has any veracity though. My interest is in the concept and its
    mnemic bases.

    Haeckel entertained vibrational or wave-motion based theories on heredity
    with perigenesis and plastidules (analogous to Darwin's pangenesis and
    gemmules) . I wonder how this sort of organic memory compares and contrasts
    to Sheldrake's views.

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