Re: Knowledge, Memes and Sensory Perception

From: Wade T. Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Wed Jan 16 2002 - 02:23:20 GMT

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    Hi Joe Dees -

    >Telling someone else that one is a thief is not the same thing as stealing
    >something before someone else's eyes, although they communicate much the
    >same message.

    They'll believe the second one quicker.

    >By communicating it, which does not require doing it.

    But that communication is a doing.

    - Wade

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