Blood-Brain Barrier
spindle
Hello!
A year ago some of my off the wall ramblings were confounded when you
presented me with the blood-brain- barrier concept.
At the time I was pondering the possibility of meme transfer from
mother to child ie the possibilty of organic-consolidation
(accumulation and transfer of memetic intelligence biologically from
generation to generation.(Idiot that I was) The blood brain-barrier
concept stopped me in my tracks (highlighting my ignorance) to the
percieved wisdom of the illuminatae.
However, there is a study reported in the New Scientist this momth
claiming that, though filtered, in and out of the brain memetic
information may/could be be inherited.
Perhaps even passed on in the genes.
The Holy Grail of Dawkins. Can you shed light on this speculation..
As ever Spindle.
.
John Flynn
Hmmm... I'll have to find and read that article. Thanks!
Oh, and I liked your Politically Correct "illuminatae".
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johnF
"Trochee, I think. Don't quote me on that."
-- Ben Wolfson, APIHNA, 6 Jan 2000
JCarr
> However, there is a study reported in the New Scientist this momth
> claiming that, though filtered, in and out of the brain memetic
> information may/could be be inherited.
> Perhaps even passed on in the genes.
If that is true then whatever information the gene inherited would
cease to be considered memetic. More so, I don't think that memetic
information actually transfers to the gene rather the gene adapts to
situations that previously a meme was used to adapt to. If a meme is
held by a group of people over several generations because it allows
the group to perform some type of cultural adaptation and a genetic
version of that cultural adaptation could prove to be more
advantageous then it is conceivable that the gene would evolve that
contained a chemical version of that same information that the meme
had. This would not be an actual transfer of information from the meme
to the gene however since a) once the gene appeared in the population
is would exist in individuals before they encounter the meme and b)
the information contain in the gene was evolved anew, independent of
the meme.
-j