From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Sun 03 Nov 2002 - 20:02:37 GMT
On Sunday, November 3, 2002, at 02:04 , Bill Spight wrote:
> But would you say that the examples of the Wild Child, Kaspar Hauser,
> and the poor girl whose parents kept her locked in a closet approach
> what you are talking about?
Yes. Unfortunately, to create the control required for memetic research,
one needs to somehow invest the subject with a set of language and
performance skills that are somehow, inert (or unbiased, I fail to
express this well, I know).
- Wade
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