Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id WAA15842 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Tue, 11 Dec 2001 22:28:30 GMT From: <salice@gmx.net> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 23:21:13 +0100 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Selection pressures Message-ID: <3C1694E9.15082.5AEF1B@localhost> In-reply-to: <3C16810C.FE553F6E@bellsouth.net> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> up. Do memes experience selection pressures? What are these pressures,
> >from an ontological point of view? Your input in answering this question
> is greatly appreciated.
As far as i know there aren't any agreed upon theories today, which
explain in which way memes get selected or experience selection
pressures.
My view is that memes rely on two kinds of selection pressures:
(1) media pressures (memes are limited to certain media
limitations, certain smart or efficient uses of media can help their
propagiation)
(2) human pressures (memes have to correspond to human's
thinking ability and level of imagination, furtheron humans also
select certain memes, some memes are considered more
important than others (WTC-example))
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