>One obvious point to make which may bring forth an obvious fallacy:
>Here, you're just willfully wrong.
In your wildest dreams.
>There's an ALife program called Tierra, written by Tom Ray, which starts
>with an innoculation of a single organism which does nothing but
>replicate/reproduce itself. Its just that sometimes mutations make
>changes.
A made-up program with made-up rules is evidence?
And you accuse me of willful fallacies?
>In every run, one sees major evolution of the replication technique.
>Individuals, its true, don't evolve, but in the case of memetics humans
>aren't the individuals, they're the Tierran "soup," if you will, the
>environment in which memetic `individuals,' like individual genes,
>reproduce, mutate and die as well as are born. In an /environment/, the
>contents may in fact evolve and that damn quickly.
Evolution is not about reproduction. Reproduction is how evolution
get passed on. Replicating is not a part of evolution, it is the result
of evolution.