Re: memetics-digest V1 #1297

From: Wade T. Smith (wade.t.smith@verizon.net)
Date: Sun 02 Mar 2003 - 15:53:23 GMT

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    On Sunday, March 2, 2003, at 01:26 AM, memetics-digest wrote:

    >> Again, there was no-one in the Tlingit tribe that came to Harvard to
    >> examine their own tribe's artifacts that had any idea what several of
    >> them
    >> were for. The information that helped to form this artifact is gone.
    >> It is
    >> not only not invariant, it is absent, and no-one, even from the
    >> culture
    >> that created it, had any information about it.
    >
    > The information is still encoded in the artifact.

    Bullshit.

    - Wade

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