RE: Cons and Facades

From: Lawrence H. de Bivort (debivort@umd5.umd.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 15 2000 - 12:55:57 BST

  • Next message: Joseph 1: "RE: Imitation or transmission?" 

    Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id MAA03741 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Thu, 15 Jun 2000 12:57:43 +0100
X-Authentication-Warning: maigret.umd.edu: debivort owned process doing -bs
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 07:55:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Lawrence H. de Bivort" <debivort@umd5.umd.edu>
X-Sender: debivort@maigret.umd.edu
To: "'memetics@mmu.ac.uk'" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: Cons and Facades
In-Reply-To: <2D1C159B783DD211808A006008062D31017458C4@inchna.stir.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.21.0006150752080.6554-100000@maigret.umd.edu>
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk
Precedence: bulk
Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk

    Wow! What a block-buster question, Vince. Better than the strongest coffee
    (it is only 8.00am, here).

    Perhaps it is that the truth seems beautiful and we want to share it for
    the aesthetic pleasure of doing so? I want to think further about
    this. Many thanks for a most stimulating question...

    - Lawrence

     On Thu, 15 Jun 2000,
    Vincent Campbell wrote:

    >I suppose partly, what I'm thinking of here is something which I think is
    >central to the memetic process, and that is the general desire we all have
    >to pass on 'the truth' whenever we think we know what that is. Of course,
    >sometimes we don't want to tell people, but to those people we like, or are
    >family we usually have a very strong urge to tell people 'the truth' (I
    >guess this might be an inclusive fitness thing).

    SNIP

    >I suppose there are two elements to this. First, what is it about certain
    >information that it can induce our notion of it being the truth? Second,
    >what is it about 'the truth' that we generally feel a strong desire to pass
    >it on to other people?

    |---------------------------------------------|
    | ESI |
    | Evolutionary Services Institute |
    | "Crafting opportunities for a better world" |
    | 5504 Scioto Road, Bethesda, MD 20816, USA |
    | (301) 320-3941 |
    |---------------------------------------------|

    ===============================================================
    This was distributed via the memetics list associated with the
    Journal of Memetics - Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission
    For information about the journal and the list (e.g. unsubscribing)
    see: http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/jom-emit

    This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Thu Jun 15 2000 - 12:58:27 BST