Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id NAA14125 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Fri, 19 May 2000 13:24:06 +0100 Message-ID: <2D1C159B783DD211808A006008062D31CEB1BE@inchna.stir.ac.uk> From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk> To: "'memetics@mmu.ac.uk'" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Subject: RE: Central questions of memetics Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 13:22:06 +0100 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Actually as I wrote that I thought someone smart would think of something
like that response!
What I'm getting at though, is that a lot of our physical behaviour is not
conscious, and so doesn't require belief. As far as we know other animals
don't have beliefs- or at least ones which they feel the need to express the
way humans do through behaviours such as ritual- and yet they survive.
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> From: Wade T.Smith
> Reply To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2000 5:13 pm
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> Subject: RE: Central questions of memetics
>
> On 05/18/00 12:01, Vincent Campbell said this-
>
> >If I threw a ball at you and you caught it, what would you need to
> believe
> >in to attempt to catch it?
>
> That it would hurt me if it hit me, or that by catching it I'd be assured
> it wouldn't hurt me, or that you cared if I caught it or not.
>
> If I didn't believe something about that ball besides its physical
> reality, then I'd just let it hit the ground.
>
> - Wade
>
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