RE: memes and sexuality

From: Vincent Campbell (v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Apr 19 2001 - 14:15:08 BST

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From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk>
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Subject: RE: memes and sexuality
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    I was making a joke on that bit... but the other part stands though, about
    the genetic determination of gun use. Seems highly unlikely to me.

    vincent

    > ----------
    > From: J. R. Molloy
    > Reply To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    > Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 12:07 am
    > To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    > Subject: Re: memes and sexuality
    >
    > From: "Vincent Campbell" <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk>
    > I don't see, however, how guns, or gun use could be genetically
    > determined (surely, even if it was, then mistaking a banana for a gun
    > would
    > be rather non-adaptive :-)).
    >
    > "mistaking" a banana for a gun isn't the same as pretending that it is a
    > gun.
    > In play, the banana is adapted for use as something it's not.
    >
    > --J. R.
    >
    > Useless hypotheses:
    > consciousness, phlogiston, philosophy, vitalism, mind, free will, qualia,
    > analog computing, cultural relativism
    >
    > Everything that can happen has already happened, not just once,
    > but an infinite number of times, and will continue to do so forever.
    > (Everything that can happen = more than anyone can imagine.)
    >
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