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> RE: the earth revolves around the sunDate: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 23:31:35 -0500
> "Wade T. Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu> "Memetics Discussion List" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>
>Hi Joe Dees -
>
>>Or is there such a thing as accidental dancing?
>
>Yes, there is.
>
>There is absolutely a process of rhythmic motion that is innate.
>
>Well, it's not accidental, at all. It's very wrapped up in music and
>speech and culture.
>
>I don't know where to go with things like innate motivations and
>processes memetically, because, while culture certainly contains and uses
>these urges, it is so close to biological behavior that there doesn't
>seem to be any need whatsoever for memetic content.
>
>After all, bees dance. I believe most if not every human society has a
>form of ritualized dance. There are many courtship dances among birds,
>and fish, and insects.
>
>So, yes, not 'accidental' but, without need for memetic conceptualization.
>
>Once we get to the tango, then that's another matter.
>
True enough, but one has great difficulty communicating to another that one wishes them to accidentally dance.
>
>- Wade
>
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