On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 01:31:07PM +0100, Alberto G. Corona wrote: Vaguely interesting, until this point
> The reason why Lamarkism is not > true is more a factual consequence of the defeat of the USSR than a direct > consequence of scientific debate. It may be said that lisenko Lamarkism was > disastrous because ti contributed to the defeat of the USSR. But had the > USSR won the cold war, we would accept the scientific truth of lamarkism, > since socialism would have been sucessful and lamarkism is the only > coherent evolutionary theory compatible with marxism, and darwinism is not. > It would be far more painful and long term to convince people to get rid of > it . > Lamarckism is just plain wrong in the biological setting. To suggest otherwise, as you do here, is utter relativistic post-modernist nonsense. That Lysenko got such a favourable hearing in the Soviet Union is a reminder just how fallible human institutions are, and a clear smell of what goes wrong in totalitarian states. As for compatibility with Marxism, Marxism is a theory of cultural evolution (to the extent is evolutionary at all). Cultural evolution is inherently Lamarckian anyway (in total contrast to biological evolution), and is considered by some as the reason why cultural evolution runs many times faster than biological evolution. Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
