Re: marxism pond

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There is a huge body of work available and on-going regarding the use of
"memes" and such to model cultural evolution.  Look in social sci indexes
of journals on CD=rom for cultural selection, cultural evolution, meme,
dual inheritance theory.  Also try authors Boyd and Richerson.  It's all
an extended analoyg upon darwinian evolution.

g


On Tue, 19 Mar 1996, Ian Hunt wrote:

> >In *marxism-digest            Saturday, 16 March 1996      Volume 02 :
> >Number 723*, Chris wrote,
> >
> >What however I really like about your post is the ecological metaphor.
> >Over a year ago I used the image of a culture dish for this l'st, in which
> >it is possible to watch different ideas competing, interacting, disrupting
> >and interacting with each other. Except the late lamented Paul Cockshott,
> >who drew attention to Kaufmann's work on computer modelling of life
> >forms, and how it could apply to knowledge, I know no one else who
> >has made this connection.
> >
> I too like this metaphor.  Richard Dawkins is at least one other who has
> introduced the analogy, calling the practically or intellectually
> significant competitors and replicators "memes"
> Ian Hunt
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