Re: Teleology etc.

From: Kenneth Van Oost (Kenneth.Van.Oost@village.uunet.be)
Date: Sun Aug 12 2001 - 08:48:30 BST

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From: "Kenneth Van Oost" <Kenneth.Van.Oost@village.uunet.be>
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Subject: Re: Teleology etc.
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 09:48:30 +0200
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    > > Hi Chris,
    > > You wrote,
    > > > Sorry, I'm the culprit for introducing that into the discussion.
    > > > How would this 100th monkey story differ from the blue tits and milk
    > > bottle
    > > > thingy? These notions becoming a part of the collective consciousness,
    > > wrong > as they may be, are fair game in this forum. Frans de Waal talks
    > > about the
    > > > 100th monkey stuff in his book _The Ape and the Sushi Master_ (2001,
    > Basic
    > > > Books, New York). What is it about these ideas that is so appealing?
    > >
    > > << How can you be so sure that those stories are wrong !?
    > > You have no prove that a mecanism drives the birds and the monkeys
    > > or not !
    > > It is still a mystery, all the reasoning is highly hypothetical.
    > > It is IMO not a " prove" that a nearby scientific application says it
    has
    > > to be wrong because its prove shows it that way, that it is wrong !! The
    > > prove it will have is just circumstancial.
    > > It must be proven, either way !!
    > >
    > > And maybe further investigation into what makes those ideas so appea-
    > > ling will turn out to be the tenet of what memetics is all about !!
    > >
    > > Regards,
    > >
    > > Kenneth
    > >
    >

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