Re: Lesser genes than expected

From: Robin Faichney (robin@reborntechnology.co.uk)
Date: Mon Feb 19 2001 - 19:44:38 GMT

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    On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 11:25:05AM -0500, Wade T.Smith wrote:
    > Hi Vincent Campbell -
    >
    > >No-one has ever been born speaking a specific language.
    >
    > It may be worth mentioning, well, it helps me anyway, to reiterate that
    > no-one has ever been born with any meme, either.

    I find it hard to imagine why anyone would want to imagine that being
    "born with any meme" was conceivable.

    > Although I'm not sure what else to call that silver spoon....

    Call it "socio-economic environmental factors". It doesn't have the
    same ring, but it's much easier to work with. 

    -- 
Robin Faichney
robin@reborntechnology.co.uk

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