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Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 17:22:16 +0200
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
From: Ton Maas <tonmaas@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: Substance and Form
Josip wrote:
>this Note. Is it there for physical substance or for something that
>"matters" to the host? Also where could I find something more about the
>Weismannian barrier?
The Weissmannian barrier is considered "outdated" by the biology boys (what
happened to wisdom streaks such as "natural _history_"?), just like
Lamarckian evolution (although every memeticist knows that it is the most
common kind of evolution in _our_ part of the turf). Bateson touches the
subject in his "Mind & Nature; A Necessary Unity" (Dutton, NY 1979), and
again in "Angels Fear" (Macmillan, 1987).
Ton
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