Re: The Demise of a Meme

From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 21 2001 - 01:25:47 GMT

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    Hi Joe E. Dees -

    >Science is the prime example of a discipline that, as far as its
    >content goes, not only explicitly embraces selection, but also has
    >enshrined verisimilitude, or correspondence with observed reality,
    >as the prime determinant of fitness.

    And if I contend that science is not a discipline (although it's a good
    thing to be disciplined..., and helps the cause immensely), but a natural
    result of observation, in a brain evolved to the point it is on this
    planet, and that science is, at its root, totally non-cultural?

    - Wade

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