Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id SAA08444 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-bounces@mmu.ac.uk); Tue, 25 Sep 2001 18:03:29 +0100 Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 09:55:47 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) From: TJ Olney <market@cc.wwu.edu> To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Belief & Behavior In-Reply-To: <1001424426.3bb0862ae89f4@rugth1.phys.rug.nl> Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.4.33.0109250952230.77-100000@C157775-A.frndl1.wa.home.com> X-X-Sender: market@[140.160.80.17] Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: fmb-bounces@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Windows on a House
Inside a house sits the object of our curiosity, something both intimately
familiar and alien. We are outside looking through the windows at the
object, but we can't get inside to apprehend it directly. We wander around
the house looking through different windows trying to understand just what it
is. Sometimes there are bushes in the way that must be dealt with before we
can even look through a particular window. Sometimes we require a ladder to
see in. Other times we must get on hands and knees. We use our binoculars,
but they cause certain kinds of distortion. We shine different lights
through the window, but each light we shine casts shadows that obscure some
detail or is in a spectrum that doesn't reflect all. Only by carefully
comparing the views from different windows do we begin to understand the
nature of the object. Even then, we argue over what we have seen. --TJ Olney
June 9, 2001
-- -- TJ Olney market@cc.wwu.edu Not all those who wander are lost. -- http://mp3.musicmatch.com/artists/artists.cgi?id=113&display=1=============================================================== This was distributed via the memetics list associated with the Journal of Memetics - Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission For information about the journal and the list (e.g. unsubscribing) see: http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/jom-emit
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