Re: memetics-digest V1 #1303

From: Wade T. Smith (wade.t.smith@verizon.net)
Date: Thu 06 Mar 2003 - 12:47:56 GMT

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    On Wednesday, March 5, 2003, at 11:07 PM, memetics-digest wrote:

    > Indeed, ancient cultures might be largely resurrected, given the will,
    > techniques and time. We can never, in principle, absolutely reproduce
    > a vanished culture, but we may be able to asymptotically approach such
    > a reproduction - if not of the people, at least of their worldviews.
    > It
    > cannot logically be ruled out - although I see few, if any,
    > nonanthropological/nonhistorical reasons why we would, or should,
    > commit the effort and resources necessary to arrive at some such
    > reasonable approximation.

    Yes, it is not logically impossible, just impossible....

    - Wade

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