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From: Jonathan B. Marder <jonathan.marder@newmail.net>
To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2000 10:57 AM
Subject: Re: MD Genes, Memes, Darwin and Lamarck
> > It would be " planned " , it would be Lamarckian, it would explain why
> > a child is not a cheat of white paper...
> I don't see why this is necessarily Lemarckian. Rather than "white
> paper", let's say "unprogrammed", while remembering that even an
> unprogrammed computer has lots of patterns wired into the hardware and
> coded into the "firmware", in fact it is "preprogrammed to be programmed
> and reprogrammed". A newborn child may be similar, with a remarkable
> added capacity for self-programming.
<< Lamarck was and is in my view not wrong. Maybe in the case of the
giraffes, but not in the case of social and cultural habits.
Not that the case of the blacksmith hammering his iron all day would have
any effct on his offspring, though !
No way that the kid shall be born with arms like a body builder. There are
still genetic patterns of the species working.
I just wanna say that in the case where we find ourselves in a bad
situation,
that we have the knowledge to overcome the problem. That due to already
inherited traits. But no genetic ones...memetic ones.
But the environment changes.
Where my father had to jump for his life while he was almost run over by a
horse and its cart, I have to jump for the thousand of cars driving like
hell.
My father gave me some memetic info to how (he survived) I have the best
chance to stay alive.
I inherited those reflexes, the (basic) knowledge to ' jump '.
My children will inherited that new ' jump- knowledgde ', not the know-
ledge my father used. And over all, throughout society that will be, what
will be inherited by all children.
( If by tomorrow we all fly in rocket- machines instead of driving cars, new
born babies will ' duck ' not ' jump '.
Lamarcks acquired characteristics were indeed Deliberately, enforced, but
only by circumstances. But that is in my book not Accidentally.
There is a twist and turn, but I think an important one.
Regards,
Kenneth
( I am, because we are)
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