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Lawrence,
At 02:00 PM 1/9/01 -0500, you wrote:
> From a sociological and communicational POV, one can carry out empirical
>research easily, without knowing much about the substrate. For example:
>fidelity of transmission, rates of dissemination, and resistence to
>alteration can all be determined without brain/substrate knowledge.
I'm interested in how this works. For instance, transmission fidelity, how
does one measure fidelity without 'something' to measure? The same goes
for dissemination and resistance to alteration.
Mark
http://www.htcomp.net/markmills
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