Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id CAA15458 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Tue, 5 Feb 2002 02:49:16 GMT Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 18:43:32 -0800 Message-Id: <200202050243.g152hWQ14532@mail13.bigmailbox.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary X-Mailer: MIME-tools 4.104 (Entity 4.116) X-Originating-Ip: [66.156.195.136] From: "Joe Dees" <joedees@addall.com> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: Words and memes Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is)
>Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 17:22:28 -0500
> Re: Words and memes "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu> memetics@mmu.ac.ukReply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>
>On Saturday, February 2, 2002, at 04:05 , Joe Dees wrote:
>
>> I have little to add to or disagree with the balance of your post,
>> except to assert that memes and humans coevolutionarily 'use' each
>> other; the first blindly and naturalistically, the second intentionally
>> and culturally
>
>Very little about nature is blind, even in any real sense.
>
>And, quite possibly, very little about culture need be intentional.
>
>Although, yeah, memes are cultural, and the humans who make them are
>natural.
>
>So far.
>
>But, like observer and observed, the line is murky.
>
Nature does not intentionally mutate genes with an 'eye' toward the future, but people do frequently intentionally mutate memes in order to improve their replicatory coefficient.
>
>
>- Wade
>
>
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