Re: Lesser genes than expected

From: wilkins (wilkins@wehi.EDU.AU)
Date: Tue Feb 20 2001 - 01:06:55 GMT

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    Scott Chase wrote:
    >
    > >From: <Zylogy@aol.com>
    > >Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    > >To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    > >CC: Zylogy@aol.com
    > >Subject: Re: Lesser genes than expected
    > >Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 14:08:38 EST
    > >
    > >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?
    >

    More like we're born with a geology of hard and soft substrates, and
    where and how long the water flows determines where the riverbeds are... 

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John Wilkins, Head, Graphic Production, The Walter and Eliza Hall 
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