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On 14 Feb 2001, at 21:45, Wade T.Smith wrote:
> Hi Joe E. Dees -
>
> >The environment to which he is referring is the cognitive
> >environment, I think.
>
> I think it is as well, but, well, where does that divide from the
> cultural environment, if it does at all?
>
The cultural environment would be composed of the cognitive
environment minus instinctual drives, plus human artifacts.
>
> And how is 'fit' defined?
>
In the standard way, so that in well-fittedness, the borders between
contiguous ideations, or between contiguous behaviors (or
surfaces, as in a lock & key or a suit and body or a sexually
compatible couple) are relatively gapless (relative, comapared to ill-
fitting). In other words, they do not contradict each other or appear
awkwardly matched if they fit together. It should be relatively easy
to move from one to the other - it should seem like a relatively
seamless transition - and the interrelationships should operate
smoothly.
>
> Cui bono?
>
> - Wade
>
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