From: Philip Jonkers (philosophimur@dygo.com)
Date: Sat 17 May 2003 - 15:55:11 GMT
Ted:
>> So why are you promoting cultural behaviorism?
Wade:
>It must look like that, I suppose, but, I'm not. I am promoting culture
>as having evolutionary processes, which is what I thought memetics was
>all about. I have to include behaviorism (in the form of behavior as an
>agent of cultural evolution), because the human animal is an agent in
>cultural evolution, and like all animals on this planet, is imbued with
>behaviors.
>
>But I am not declaring that there is no agency of 'free-will' or
>choice, or individualism, or that all behaviors are hard-wired.
>
>I suppose, yes, I am declaring that, because culture commands venues of
>performance, that there is a lack of freedom in any cultural
>performance, but, that is also ill-expressed, as the performance itself
>can be totally free (which is the case in all aleatory happenstances
>and accidents), but the continuation of culture depends upon the
>control of the parameters to the extent that quite often, people are
>trained to perform in quite rigid ways, a la all orthodoxies.
>
>Anyway, I'm not promoting cultural behaviorism.
What do you call it then? Cultural performance-ism?
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