From: Wade T. Smith (wade.t.smith@verizon.net)
Date: Sat 10 May 2003 - 02:51:17 GMT
On Friday, May 9, 2003, at 04:41 PM, memetics-digest wrote:
> If thus, like Ray suggested in his initial posting, if those birds
> were to be released in a more quitely environment would their
> youngster ' remerber ' the songs sang by their parents some-
> where in the past !?
> Would thus the spot of singing the songs re- appear when
> youngsters were to be born in more rural environments !?
The dilemma with memetic experiments to prove the meme is just this-
the _removal_ of culture is firstly mandatory, and this would be
totally unethical.
See the sadly unfulfilling play 'La Dispute', by Marivaux.
- Wade
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