Re: MIT research reports rats dream of mazes

From: Chris Taylor (Christopher.Taylor@man.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Jan 25 2001 - 16:25:14 GMT

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    I don't think it has to have been culturally transmitted to be transmissable - if one
    rat followed another (for whatever reason) and happened to be shown the maze
    solution, the meme would have jumped without any need for volition or culture. And
    anyway, why is transmission a vital part of meme definition? What do we call the idea
    that the rat has of itself solving a maze? Or do we just have to call that some sort
    of autonomic learning?

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