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Robin,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk [mailto:fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk]On Behalf
> Of Robin Faichney
> Sent: Tuesday, 6 February 2001 8:13
> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: Darwinian evolution vs memetic evolution
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 10:08:19PM -0600, joedees@bellsouth.net wrote:
> > On 5 Feb 2001, at 20:17, Robin Faichney wrote:
> >
> > > I did not say we are free only to do some things, or only to some
> > > extent -- that is so obvious as to be needless to say. What I said
> > > was, we are free only in some senses.
> > >
> > Well, obviously some of us are free enough to choose to consider
> > themselves unfree, or was that complex web of neuronal dynamism
> > forever set at the instant of the Big Bang, too?
>
> Do you think "we are free only in some senses" means "we are unfree"?
>
> If you don't understand what I'm saying, why not just say so, and ask
> for clarification?
>
Joe is not capable of that. If he does not understand or he misinterprets
(often!) then he switches to negative mode. It is a defence mechanism.
Forgive him, he knows not what he does :-)
If he did as you suggested then there is the horrifying recognition that he
FAILED to understand something. shock horror; no no no .. the fault MUST be
yours... :-)
Chris.
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