Message-Id: <v03102810b22595f77313@[194.109.13.153]>
In-Reply-To: <35FE147C.27A12989@rug.ac.be>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 18:23:53 +0200
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
From: Ton Maas <tonmaas@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: Copying, imitation, transformation, replication
Mario wrote:
>I should disagree here. Genes are replicated without transformation. Just like
>printed texts are.
Maybe, but genes, just like humans, can't step into the same river twice!
The notion of "sameness" implies a denial of the larger natural-historical
process, in which _nothing_ ultimately stays the same, apart from the
Eternal Verities, such as 2+2=4 (which were tautological to begin with :-)
Ton
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