Kenneth Jonathan all
This jumped out at me,
K
> > One said, choise [sic] and free will are necessary to human memetic evolution,
> otherwise there could be no directed modifacation of l- memes and there
> could be no selection between alternative versions created by such modi-
> fications (g- memes).
3WD
My recent focus on the work of William James leads me to comment that
his definition of "free" will is limited to a choice, between
alternatives, which if made now can be reasonably expected to be
experienced in the future as the "wished for" results. But he
emphasizes that in many cases " no decision" or "no choice" is a choice.
In the spreading or replication of value patterns or memes my guess is
that this is the most common or prevalent case.
A good deal of what you talk about in the rest of the 2:46 pm split
could be tied to what James discussed as "habit" in his early work.
3WD
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