Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id HAA05586 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Sat, 19 Jan 2002 07:16:38 GMT Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 23:12:15 -0800 Message-Id: <200201190712.g0J7CFB19002@mail2.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: [65.80.162.155] From: "Joe Dees" <joedees@addall.com> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: Knowledge, Memes and Sensory Perception Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is)
> Re: Knowledge, Memes and Sensory PerceptionDate: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 13:38:09 -0500
> "Wade T. Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu> "Memetics Discussion List" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>
>Hi Grant Callaghan -
>
>>The reasons we come up with are
>>usually arrived at after the fact and are more likely to be attempts at
>>justification than valid observations.
>
>And what about the memes involved, if any are involved at all?
>
>After the fact as well?
>
>Attempts at justifications?
>
>If we call behaviors, and only behaviors, capable of memetic content, we
>can then have only valid observations.
>
Verbal communication is itself a behavior, but one motivated by what a mind wishes to communicate. The person may lie, but they can lie with their other behaviors, as well (by, for instance, pretending that they do not know how to do something that they indeed do know how to do). In either case, observations are possible; in neither case is validity assured.
>
>- Wade
>
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