Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id WAA00967 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-bounces@mmu.ac.uk); Sat, 22 Sep 2001 22:42:53 +0100 X-Originating-IP: [209.240.220.143] From: "Scott Chase" <ecphoric@hotmail.com> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: Dawkins was right all along Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 17:35:12 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: <F172NXRPmcarcR4ZDgC00003196@hotmail.com> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Sep 2001 21:35:12.0616 (UTC) FILETIME=[75FFE680:01C143AE] Sender: fmb-bounces@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>From: "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu>
>Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>To: "Memetics Discussion List" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
>Subject: Re: Dawkins was right all along
>Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 17:12:55 -0400
>
>Hi Bill Spight -
>
> >Children
> >have many beliefs that are not learned.
>
>Definitionally, all beliefs are learned behaviors.
>
>
I'm struggling to think of a belief wwhich could result sans learning. Would
a belief not resulting from learning be an innate or inherited idea?
Propensities to learn in cerain ways could be heritable, but beliefs or
ideas themselves?
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