Re: virus: The Meme and the Hypothesis (was: One More Time,
B. Lane Robertson (metaphy@hotmail.com)
Sun, 16 Aug 1998 09:18:04 PDT
Though memes might produce errors (mistakes in the
copying of information)... I don't think that this
possibility is the best one for suggestion how an
ORDERED progression from one memetic form to
another "evolves". I suggest (and it has been
suggested before) that memetic evolution is due to
"intentionality" (that is, certain preferred
patterns are progressively implemented according
to an inherent ordering-- such that a more highly
evolved pattern must replace the former due to its
*superior* organization... rather than attributing
this new organization to chance and "mutation" ["spontaneous
generation"]).
B. Lane Robertson
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