From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Thu 17 Oct 2002 - 03:12:21 GMT
> >...a mental predisposition to engage in instances of certain
> >behaviors more frequently than one might engage in them in its
> >absence.
> >
> Hmmm. That would make behaviors such a learning our first language a
> meme. It would include all the hardwired behaviors we inherit as
> members of the human race. All humans have a predisposition to learn
> language. Somehow that doesn't distinguish memes from inherited
> behaviors. Are there any other characteristics that would distinguish
> them further?
>
That their particular form is not genetically required (that is, they are not
innate). The capacity to learn a language is part and parcel of the
human condition, but the languages we do indeed learn are arbitrary
human constructions. They could just as easily for us be other
languages.
>
> Grant
>
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