Re: Cultural traits and vulnerability to memes

From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Sun Mar 10 2002 - 14:21:17 GMT

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    On Sunday, March 10, 2002, at 07:27 , Jeremy Bradley wrote:

    > So I guess that makes me firmly anti determinist 'cos I think that
    > traits
    > are programmed in to us for the purpose of making us vulnerable to
    > culturally appropriate memes and defensive against culturally
    > inappropriate
    > ones.

    Doesn't sound anti-determinist to me. Sounds like a spider web. Useful
    and malleable.

    - Wade

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