A survival instinct is evolutionary. That is to say, animals have one
also (most assume)--and the passing on of this type of information is
inherent in what it means to be human-- as a developmental progression
which includes the animal instinct as well as certain advantages in the
organization of human consciousness which builds on this characteristic
(and others) in a way we might term "more advanced", giving humans a
survival advantage over "less advanced" animals.
If we assume this to be true, why should we not assume that children
have the memetic information for survival passed on as a "innate"
potential which "develops" at the proper time in a human life span (like
a child "learns" to walk whe they are the proper developmental "age"?
Therefore, assuming that "traffic" (or other environmental contingencies
which are "artificial"-- or which are additional to the
content-inspecific *tendencies* of the human animal-- are mereley
circumstancial to the developmental procession of a child is not
inconsistent with the theory of memetics.
Brett Lane Robertson
Indiana, USA
www.window.to/mindrec
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Brett writes
>A meme is a self-organizing principal. This means that it is not (in my
>opinion) behavioral.
>
>Or more simply, if the child's innate survival instinct (meme)
Brett, you're a loon.
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