Re: memetics and knowledge

From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Tue Sep 19 2000 - 21:37:59 BST

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    >WTF am I dealing with here?

    By 'technology' I mean a working model of nature or of a natural
    principle, in the line of the definition from anthropology-

    "The body of knowledge available to a civilization that is of use in
    fashioning implements, practicing manual arts and skills, and extracting
    or collecting materials."

    What is, in other words, the basic machinery of mysticism?

    - Wade

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