What is the next step in evolution?

September 7, 2010 § 1 Comment

In case you missed it like I did, Susan Blackmore wrote a terrific article about memes for the New York Times.

Of course cars and books are passive lumps of metal, paper and ink. They cannot copy, let alone vary and select information themselves. So could any of our modern meme products take the step our hominid ancestors did long ago and begin a new kind of copying? Yes. They could and they are. Our computers, all linked up through the Internet, are beginning to carry out all three of the critical processes required for a new evolutionary process to take off. Read the full story… View comments and Sue’s responses here

via The Third Replicator – NYTimes.com.

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