Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id PAA17047 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Mon, 15 Jan 2001 15:13:05 GMT User-Agent: Microsoft Outlook Express Macintosh Edition - 5.0 (1513) Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 10:10:18 -0500 Subject: Re: DNA Culture .... Trivia? From: William Benzon <bbenzon@mindspring.com> To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Message-ID: <B6887417.6957%bbenzon@mindspring.com> In-Reply-To: <20010115131438.A3878@reborntechnology.co.uk> Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
on 1/15/01 8:14 AM, Robin Faichney at robin@reborntechnology.co.uk wrote:
> only works at a high level of abstraction. At that level, genes and
> memes between them account for all behaviour.
This is rarified country indeed. But it's not at all clear it works even at
that level. You have to prove it.
And, at some sufficiently high level it's a elementary particles and forces.
>But at lower levels,
> when you start to look at specific behaviours, you obviously have to
> take specific factors such as individual psychology into account.
>
> If you're one of those people who has no interest in such philosophical
> considerations -- maybe that's where "loose talk" comes from -- then
> that will mean little or nothing to you, and I would not waste my time
> in further discussion of this with you.
Not even philosophy can survive on loose talk.
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