Brett wrote:
>My approach is to separate what is cultural from what is evolutionary so
that the
>evolutionary process of the meme is refined.
Nate writes:
I contend evolution is JUST A PROCESS while culture is the name for the set
of memes as they exist in situ.
Brett writes:
>No one suggests that there are genetic codes for such things as traffic
safety...
Nate writes:
Some people suggest that children will instinctively obey traffic safety
rules if you don't impose penalties for breaking the rules. They suggest
that the ability to know when to listen is innate.
Brett writes:
>and I do not assume that memetics is particularly helpful in describing
certain cultural >biases.
Nate writes:
Really? Because memetics is the basis for my cultural relativism. In the
same way that genetics defines evolutionary tradeoffs memetics defines
cultural tradeoffs. Genetics and memetics define the landscape on which
evolution operates ...