Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 18:46:09 +0100
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
From: Robin Faichney <robin@faichney.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: The information theoretic view Was: JOM
In-Reply-To: <NBBBIIDKHCMGAIPMFFPJAEJDDJAA.richard@brodietech.com>
In message <NBBBIIDKHCMGAIPMFFPJAEJDDJAA.richard@brodietech.com>,
Richard Brodie <richard@brodietech.com> writes
>And do you also think that birds and monkeys have always been building
>skyscrapers, computers, and antibiotics?
>
>Are you seriously arguing that technological progress is impossible in
>designing self-replicating cultural organisms? I suppose it doesn't matter
>what you argue... it will happen and is happening regardless.
Be fair, Richard, you did say "doing" it (making memes etc.), not
"getting better at" it. That message was begging for the kind of
response it got from Wade.
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