Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 09:19:45 -0400
From: Bill Benzon <bbenzon@mindspring.com>
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Subject: Re: socially selected memes
John Wilkins wrote:
> they can be completed. If they can, then scientific development is, like
> biological, a unidirectional and irreversible process. Later scientific
> theories are better than earlier ones for solving puzzles in the often
> quite different environments to which they are applied. That is not a
> relativist's position, and it displays the sense in which I am a
> convinced believer in scientific progress. (Kuhn 1970: 205f)
David Hays and I have published an article that explicates this kind of
cognitive evolution in terms of underlying cognitive mechanisms:
William Benzon and David Hays, "The Evolution of Cognition," Journal of
Social and Biological Structures 13, 297-320, 1990.
-- William Benzon Senior Scientist Meta4 Incorporated 33-41 Newark Street Hoboken, NJ 07030 USA voice: 201.656.0906 fax: 201.656.0901 home page: www.newsavanna.com/wlb/
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