From: L' Ermit (lhermit@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue Jan 29 2002 - 03:32:44 MST
[Joe Dees] No, because memes inhabit and compete for space in an intentional
environment (human brains and the recursive and meaning-creating,
bestowing-and-apprehending minds which emerge from this complex material
substrate) rather than in a natural and nonintentional
environment, such as a terrestrial ecology. People actually intentionally
deconstruct memeplexes into component memes and recombine them in novel ways
for preconceived purposes (or just for the helluvit), rather than them just
mutate at random without so much as a whiff of intentional human agency.
[Hermit] Isn't this one possible expansion of "especially memetic selection"
(others being genetic and environmental)? What else is implied (to you) by
"memetic selection"?
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