From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Wed 09 Jul 2003 - 19:32:42 GMT
Date sent: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 14:18:36 -0400
Subject: Re: Silent memes
From: "Wade T. Smith" <wade.t.smith@verizon.net>
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
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>
> On Wednesday, July 9, 2003, at 11:27 AM, Keith wrote:
>
> > It is clear that chimps have culture and that their culture varies
> > from place to place.
>
> This is a supposition, it is not a clarity.
>
> Hauser, here at Harvard, has a very compelling argument against this
> position, and I, for one, feel it is more compelling than any 'chimps
> _do so_ have culture' argument.
>
> In many ways, of course, the memeinthemind models are tied
> axiomatically to the 'chimps have culture' position. This is, again,
> one of the severe empirical problems with these models.
>
Actually, different tribes of chimps exhibit different performative
repertoires. Since the memeisthemotion pseudomodel founders when
faced with semantic encodings such as language, it is better suited to
chimps than to people.
>
> - Wade
>
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