Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id UAA14414 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Mon, 4 Feb 2002 20:36:37 GMT Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020204123339.02c65ae0@pop.cogeco.ca> X-Sender: hkhenson@pop.cogeco.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2002 12:43:59 -0500 To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk From: Keith Henson <hkhenson@cogeco.ca> Subject: Re: Selfish memes ? In-Reply-To: <001c01c1ad91$76df66a0$1007bed4@default> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
At 04:33 PM 04/02/02 +0100, you wrote:
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Jeeze guys. "Selfish" in context of gene, memes or computer viruses is
*metaphor*. It is a short way of expressing in the fact that genes that
build bodies better able to get the those genes into the next generation
become more common in future generations. Darwinian evolution has been
restated in the past decades not as "survival" so much as reproductive success.
Please don't try to make a big deal out of something so simple.
Keith Henson
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