Re: memetics-digest V1 #1294

From: Keith Henson (hkhenson@rogers.com)
Date: Wed 26 Feb 2003 - 05:16:38 GMT

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    At 10:43 PM 25/02/03 -0500, you wrote:

    >>From: "Wade T. Smith" <wade.t.smith@verizon.net>
    >>Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    >>To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    >>Subject: Re: memetics-digest V1 #1294
    >>Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 00:13:00 -0500
    >>
    >>On Saturday, February 22, 2003, at 08:03 AM, memetics-digest wrote:
    >>
    >>>Do you have any doubt that one of the things humans do is copy information?
    >>
    >>Yes.

    snip

    >Wade pretty much demolishes the internalist stance with his wrecking ball.

    He does not seem to think there are elements of culture. I could put in examples of someone teaching a group of kids who had never been exposed to cricket or baseball, but what's the point?

    >How well would the externalist stance stand?

    No idea of what you are proposing here.

    Keith Henson

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