Subject: Re: facets of meme-talk
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 20:52:06 -0400
From: "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
On 08/28/99 13:40 the inimitable MemeLab@aol.com made this comment =8B
>Furthermore, prospectively thinking, once DNA based life (humans) reach th=
e
>point where they both easily and habitually directly alter their own DNA
>germ
>line (which, by the way is only a question of "how soon?" and not "if?"),
>how
>is this going to be distinguishable from Lamarckian evolution?
Only in the sense that at that stage of technology, even the environment
for which we will be adapting this DNA will likely be in turn fully
maleable.
- Wade
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