re: Ian Greely's last:
evolution of ideas: the term associated with this is "meme", as in
"meme-pool", which is sort of analogous to genes and gene-pool. but, in
evolution, I don't agree that concious decisions are a major (or even
neccessary) factor. So, I think that "evolution" is the right term here,
complete with the randomness of slight imperfections accumulating with
succesive reproductions, eventually amounting to something which is
completely different to the original, yet not entirely (or even at all)
chaotic ( which from an information point of view is totally uninteresting).
Popper wrote some about the evolution of ideas.
cheers, all.
Peter Lennox
Hardwick House
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e-mail: peter@lennox01.freeserve.co.uk
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