Message-Id: <32FF5A90.3A76@rug.ac.be>
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 09:27:44 -0800
From: Mario Vaneechoutte <Mario.Vaneechoutte@rug.ac.be>
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Subject: Lamarckism
When using the terms encoded information and processing (instead of the
confusing replicator, etc...: see my other posting), it becomes obvious
what is really happening in the examples on Lamarckism, Nick provides:
taking out a page of a book is an intervention at the level of physical
encoding. This is comparable to making knock-out mice (briefly: taking
away a gene from a mouse) or other genetic manipulations. Are our
genetic manipulations Lamarckian? Of course not. We didn't manage to
make the 'phenotype' influence the genotype, all we did was changing the
genotype
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