Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id QAA04852 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Thu, 22 Nov 2001 16:58:22 GMT Subject: Re: Study shows brain can learn without really trying Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 11:53:20 -0500 x-sender: wsmith1@camail2.harvard.edu x-mailer: Claris Emailer 2.0v3, Claritas Est Veritas From: "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu> To: "Memetics Discussion List" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Message-ID: <20011122165317.AAA20486@camailp.harvard.edu@[205.240.180.109]> Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Hi Robin Faichney -
>memetics is entirely mechanistic and deterministic.
Okay, since I do understand that point (and, yeah, I am meandering amidst
the points, with no ascertainment of my own in this arena, as you've
seen), accepting it would seem to reduce it to meaninglessness, as it
merely becomes a description of a facet of another, more reductionist,
mechanism, namely evolutionary adaptation in the form of sexual genetic
mutation.
Which only makes it a process.
Which may be acceptable as a descriptor, but, IMHO, it makes the meme
itself unimaginable.
Which is perhaps as it should be.
- Wade
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