Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id UAA26575 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Wed, 16 Jan 2002 20:32:52 GMT Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 12:28:27 -0800 Message-Id: <200201162028.g0GKSRR28768@mail3.bigmailbox.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary X-Mailer: MIME-tools 4.104 (Entity 4.116) X-Originating-Ip: [216.76.255.72] From: "Joe Dees" <joedees@addall.com> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: Do all memes die out or evolve? I think not. Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is)
>Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 15:05:05 -0500
> Re: Do all memes die out or evolve? I think not. Wade Smith <wade_smith@harvard.edu> memetics@mmu.ac.ukReply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>
>On Wednesday, January 16, 2002, at 02:33 , Joe Dees wrote:
>
>> The leap in intelligence you invoke would certainly leave its
>> beneficiaries aware of the functionality and utility of the
>> multiplication tables.
>
>Are we aware of the functionality and utility of our thumbs?
>
>Well, I'll start an answer- yes, we are aware that our thumbs
>are unique, and we even differentiate species by the
>opposibility of their thumbs.
>
>But, are we _aware_ of the functionality and utility of our thumbs?
>
>Are we _aware_ of anything that is second nature?
>
>This is also linked in with the memetics as brain-washing thread
>that's been started.
>
>Although, well, calling a spade a spade has always been my motto.
>
IOW, you are proposing a hardwired multiplication table (and possibly a hardwired periodic table of elements as well) so that children would no longer have to learn them, but would instinctually know them. If I were gonna live for another hundred thousand years, I'd be willing to take bets that such will not happen within that time.
>
>- Wade
>
>
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