Re: Standard definition

From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Sun 03 Nov 2002 - 17:44:09 GMT

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    On Sunday, November 3, 2002, at 12:35 , Bill Spight wrote:

    > I suspect that you mean something different from "meme in the mind" than
    > its proponents do. Would you outline such an experiment?

    In order to show some mental signals without noise or variability, the only sort of experiment I could imagine doing would involve creating a control subject without cultural mental activity, and this would mean, quite literally, a brain in a box.

    - Wade

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