From: "John C. 'Buck' Field" <info@fieldoperative.com>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: implied or inferred memes
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 16:33:10 -0500
In-Reply-To: <f01e8a52.2517e9ae@aol.com>
I believe Blackmore is emphasizing the memetic pressure exerted on genetic evolution.
She posits the notion (objectionable personally, but I must admit the possibility)
that Neanderthal, with its greater cephalization may have actually become extinct as a
result of memes spreading which were ultimately lethal to the host genotype.
Modern man, she states, could be the result of a genetic reassertion of influence.
Memetic pressure can, it seems likely, exterminate itself through over specialization
and parasitism, just as with any other parasitic replicator.
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Sent: Monday, September 20, 1999 2:49 PM
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Subject: Re: implied or inferred memes
In a message dated 9/20/99 1:15:03 PM Central Daylight Time,
proftim@speakeasy.org writes:
>>Jake:
>>
>>As Blackmore would say it, we have to demonstrate that memes are not
>>effectively on a "genetic leash."
>>
>>Bill:
>>
>>No comprende, sennor. Isn't everything cultural on a genetic leash?
>
>Sometimes genes just set the size of the "run", without the dog pulling
>anyone but himself around inside it.
>
>-Tim
>
That was a very good metaphorical way of saying it.
Thanks,
-Jake
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