Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id NAA20517 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Thu, 21 Dec 2000 13:37:06 GMT From: "Chris Lofting" <ddiamond@ozemail.com.au> To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Subject: RE: Who knew genes could get mean? Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 00:43:02 +1100 Message-ID: <LPBBICPHCJJBPJGHGMCICEOECLAA.ddiamond@ozemail.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 In-Reply-To: <A4400389479FD3118C9400508B0FF2300411C2@DELTA.newhouse.akzonobel.nl> Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
dont forget the meanings present as part of the neurology's methodology of
analysis using what/where distinctions. Thus there is a degree of general
meaning present with differentiation biasing the preferred choices...
Chris.
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> From: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk [mailto:fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk]On Behalf
> Of Gatherer, D. (Derek)
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>
>
> Wade:
> And every infant is a rewrite, and every child's development contains a
> blank slate.... If memetics works in any arena, it is there, surrounding
> the child, as it grows.
>
> Derek:
> A cultural blank slate, but not quite Locke's original 'tabula rasa' which
> was supposed to be a blank state from every point of view. Leonard
> Bernstein used to say he believed in the perfectability of
> mankind (okay he
> was a conductor not a psychologist, but when you're that famous people
> listen to your opinion on all kinds of things). Some liberal
> intellectuals
> do seem to cling to that Lockean Enlightenment view, but unfortunately I'm
> too steeped in sociobiology.
>
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