life ain't a rock

From: Wade T. Smith (wade.t.smith@verizon.net)
Date: Mon 09 Jun 2003 - 11:28:16 GMT

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Joe wrote:

> But if there were no human cognitive informational patterning, there
> would be no human culture, really. I have never noticed a boulder
> culture.

Correct. Cultures need minds, and active, not stationary, agents. Do cultures need humans? Time will tell, I suppose, but, generally, the only culture we know about does.

- Wade

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