Re: Mutant swarms and copying fidelity

From: Bill Spight (bspight@pacbell.net)
Date: Thu 05 May 2005 - 17:31:19 GMT

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    Dear Kate,

    > Actually here's a thought: physical skills are not transferable
    > between people so they can't be memetic. You can share the
    > information about best practice but you can't share the ability to
    > put it into practice.

    There is a difference between the ability and the skill. The skill requires both the ability and the how-to knowledge.

    Best,

    Bill

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