From: Robin Faichney (robin@mmmi.org)
Date: Fri 29 Jul 2005 - 07:16:14 GMT
Just as the human mind is not a blank slate on which culture would
somehow imprint its content, the communication process is not a xerox
machine copying contents from one mind to another. This is where I
part company not just from your standard semiologists or social
scientists who take communication to be a coding-decoding system, a
transmission system, biased only by social interests, by power, by
intentional or unconscious distortions, but that otherwise could
deliver a kind of smooth flow of undistorted information. I also part
company from Richard Dawkins who sees cultural transmission as based
on a process of replication, and who assume that imitation and
communication provide a robust replication system. -- Dan Sperber in
the current Edge: http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge164.html
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