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Humans, our current host animal species, share a common ancestry with all biological life on earth.
I have two problems with the phrasing. First "our current host animal species" seems to imply there was a former host animal species. I know you probably didn't mean it that way, but there is no need to invite confusion. Secondly we share a common ancestor, not ancestry, with all biological life. Very different meanings. -- DavidLucifer
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+First, Actually I intended an open implication on future animal species, wishing to consider my hypothetical beloved space monkeys for potential future memetic infection. I think that would prove an incredible test of fitness if our memes could cross a species boundary in this manner and still maintain its basic replicative integrity and identity. It certainly would give "Prime Intellect" something to at least think about if not change in re: to the first rule. In the interest of avoiding confusion let's chat about this wording somewhat before settling on a solution. We may even drop the whole "host species thing".
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+Secondly, I'm thinking about ditching the "ancestor"/"ancestry" conundrum and offering a completely different solution. Preliminarily I am thinking about using the word "clade" here. " . . . , share a common clade with all biological life on earth." Let me know what you think of this possibility. I may yet consider the whole ancestor worshipping thing again at some point, but it doesn't feel like it is going anywhere at the moment. I would love to be your audience regarding your opinion of the word/meme "clade" for our purpose. Already many different meanings with so few words. -- JakeSapiens
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Proposal 13 by JakeSapiens (wording by DavidLucifer) on 2003.01.29
