Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id LAA02241 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Mon, 11 Mar 2002 11:05:18 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: cheetah.nor.com.au: Host 253.digital.ppp.telstra.dataheart.net [202.147.129.253] claimed to be green-machine Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.20020311215233.006fce3c@pophost.nor.com.au> X-Sender: jeremyb@pophost.nor.com.au X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 21:52:33 +1100 To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk From: Jeremy Bradley <jeremyb@nor.com.au> Subject: Re: Cultural traits and vulnerability to memes In-Reply-To: <15E9AE30-3432-11D6-93B1-003065B9A95A@harvard.edu> References: <3.0.1.32.20020310232722.006fd59c@pophost.nor.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
At 09:21 AM 10/03/02 -0500, you wrote:
>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
>
For me Wade, determinism is the theory that behaviours are 'hardwired' into
us. What I suggest is that humans are programable rather than fixed.
Jeremy
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