Re: Lesser genes than expected

From: Scott Chase (ecphoric@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue Feb 20 2001 - 01:15:17 GMT

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From: "Scott Chase" <ecphoric@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Lesser genes than expected
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 20:15:17 -0500
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    >From: wilkins <wilkins@wehi.EDU.AU>
    >Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    >To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    >Subject: Re: Lesser genes than expected
    >Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 12:06:55 +1100
    >
    >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...
    >
    >
    OK, maybe that sounds better.

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