Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id PAA11266 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-bounces@mmu.ac.uk); Wed, 26 Sep 2001 15:07:32 +0100 Message-ID: <000701c14603$fca061e0$1ca1bed4@default> From: "Kenneth Van Oost" <Kenneth.Van.Oost@village.uunet.be> To: "memetics" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Subject: Fw: Dawkins was right all along Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 22:52:26 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: fmb-bounces@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
----- Original Message -----
From: Kenneth Van Oost <Kenneth.Van.Oost@village.uunet.be>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 9:23 PM
Subject: Re: Dawkins was right all along
> Hi Wade,
>
> I get your point now and I agree on it as far that beliefs can only be
> learned
> from others. I see other possibilities rising, but those are due to my
> personal agenda.... memes in genes remerber.
> Propensities to belief certain beliefs would in that view be part of our
> gene-
> tic and memetic built up, but that is of no relevance to this topics.
> That is, propensities to believe in the Christian God would be already in
> place,
> it is just due to what the others learn you or not, that those things will
> emerge or not.
> But like I said, that has nothing to do with the topics here, so I shut
> up...
>
> Best regards,
>
> Kenneth
>
> ( I am, because we are) hopefully back, thanks Ted
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Wade T.Smith <wade_smith@harvard.edu>
> To: memetics list <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 2:31 PM
> Subject: Re: Dawkins was right all along
>
>
> > >If a child is learned to have no beliefs,
> >
> > That ain't what I said. I said a child begins with no beliefs, and, no
> > reason to form any.
> >
> > A belief (which word, again, I _only_ use in the sense of an unsupported
> > declaration of a mechanism of the universe, if you will, like gods and
> > homeopathy and 'vote democrat') can only be learned from others
(possibly
> > with an agenda to stop you from discovering real things), because, if
one
> > studies the universe, unbiasedly, like a child will do, one can only
> > discover facts, and facts lead to theories, and theories lead to
> > experiment and verification, and verification leads to a 'pretty sure
> > this is how things work' declaration, not an 'I believe the qi was
> > blocked'.
> >
> > >You can't believe in nothing, if you do... you do believe !!
> >
> > Belief should have nothing to do with it.
> >
> > - Wade
> >
> > ===============================================================
> > 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
> >
>
===============================================================
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
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Wed Sep 26 2001 - 16:59:17 BST