Evolution of the mind

This is the article:
http://faculty.ed.uiuc.edu/g-cziko/wm/05.htmlPlease read at least 'The Development of the Brain' section. My question is whether we can say that the neurons are going thruogh evolution (obviously natural selection), and if so can we use the concepts we have encountered in biological evolution of alleles (gene flow, macroevolution, gene migration, exc') to predict what those mean in terms of neuronal evolution, and what their affects are?

I think that maybe I wasnt so clear about what I meant by evolution here, though nwr was very close (Its my first topic ). When I started the topic I was thinking of Richard Dawkin's idea of natural selection of ideas - he calls the units of those basic ideas meames (I'm not sure if I'v writtin it correctly, I read it in hebrew) as a very real equivalent of alleles; although these meames arent chemicals like DNA or RNA, they still seem (nothing proven yet ) to 'behave' according to the basic laws of evolution. My notion of evolutionary prosseses is not limited to genetics, not even biology - as it has been demonsrated in this forum many times (with evolving software, ext') - so when I look at neuronal development, though I understand that it is a developmental prosses, I can recognise the charactaristics (critiria you may say) of evolution (correct me if I'm wrong ) :
1. reproduction - neurons grow throuout life, although less in older age, there are always enough neurons to go through selection.
2. modification - not much to say, neurons are different from each other.
3. selection - I thimk that the genetic evolution of the brain was "pushed" to form a brain with the capability to 'freely' respond to "pressures" from the outside world (that are relevent to the senses - obviously). I think thats why people tend to describe the brain as flexible.
4. heredity - Like nrw said : Though this may be a closed system, the way thay "pass along" their ability to do somthing well is two-fold:
(a) The genes that evolved to produce a brain capable os responding well to the outside world are passed on through biological reproduction. Though these capabilities are only the potential for a functionality of the brain (in higher brian functions only).
(b) The ideas themselves are "reproduced" from person to person and give that person and an advantage over others (language, understanding of the physical world, the ability to make pizza, and many more) and with them so are the neurons reproduced (I think it works that way).
SO....while genes reproduce verticaly, meames (or ideas or neurons) seem (tentatively) to reproduce both horizontaly and verticaly. Horizontal reproduction meaning the sharing of ideas between people and vertical meaning cultural/religious heritage.* Side note: ever since I started writing in this forum I find myself being more and more cautious with my use of words that might seem ambiguous.

The title of this topic was more relevent than I intended. Here is a definition of "mind" (notice no. 2):
Mind Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

It isnt an analogy but litiraly evolution, just not the common biological (genetic based) evolution we are use to. The basic component that is passed on and modified here is the idea.
I think now that the wiring of neurons in the more basic regons of the brain - the visual reigon for example - may not have these advanced evolutionary 'tactics' but relies mostly on an inherant genetic tendancy towards seeing more than selection and modification, though the selectionary prosses still exists. The growth I meant was the ability of the brain to rewire itself as to give a fuctionality to almost any reigon in the brain - after lossing sight or something. The neurons themselves dont do the actual reproduction in terms of evoltion (your right about that), the units that do that are the ideas - they reproduce and are modified. I agree, good call. But these are neurons that "store" ideas (I realy need a better word for that). See the above comment about ideas reproducing. Its not the synaps itself that makes for a unit of selection, but the 'information' or ideas it stores. This is analogous to DNA or RNA (not ribozymes) as a random selection of nuleotides - but put them in the right order and they 'contain information' {its not a very good analogy ). The neurons that contain ideas and pass them on to other poeple or are modified through interation with the world or with other 'ideas', this is analogous to heredity.

I agree. There must be a differnce between the two, but replication occurs between individuals. Selection occurs both inside the brain - choosing ideas that fit the individuals sensory perseption of the world - and between brains - ideas 'look for' ideas of the same kind (that agree with them), the latter can be an analogy to sexual selection. OK, so where does this kind of evolution stem from (physiologicaly)?
Can we see the other types of evolutionary processes in this type of evolution (genetic drift ext')? How exactly does the flat worm (Dugesia - very cute ) aquire the RNA sequence after degrading it? Not one synaps but many of them - equated to a code (just like DNA).
Though I dont realy know alot about this.