Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id BAA11974 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Tue, 20 Feb 2001 01:03:51 GMT X-Originating-IP: [209.240.220.159] From: "Scott Chase" <ecphoric@hotmail.com> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: Lesser genes than expected Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 20:01:19 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: <F187TvOSQeSOzNCWbzw00007131@hotmail.com> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 20 Feb 2001 01:01:19.0225 (UTC) FILETIME=[A2426E90:01C09AD8] Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>From: <Zylogy@aol.com>
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>Subject: Re: Lesser genes than expected
>Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 14:08:38 EST
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>Ah, but might it be that we ARE born with enhanced ability to learn certain
>classes of structures within language, certain types of vocabulary before
>others, and certain memes similarly? Consider the face-recognizer in the
>cortex. Nobody had to be taught the importance of a face. Imprinting in
>birds? Learning and decision tasks put into formats compatible with an
>animal's normal activities will be better executed than those which in
>alien
>ones.
>
>
So maybe we're born with a bunch of riverbeds needing only some water to
course through them?
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