Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id BAA01310 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Wed, 30 Jan 2002 01:10:25 GMT Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 17:04:36 -0800 Message-Id: <200201300104.g0U14aH06557@mail20.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: [65.80.162.123] From: "Joe Dees" <joedees@addall.com> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: neccesity of mental memes Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is)
> "Grant Callaghan" <grantc4@hotmail.com> memetics@mmu.ac.uk Re: neccesity of mental memesDate: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 07:53:21 -0800
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>>A universal meansurement of length could be, say, multiples of an primary
>>particle's (say a proton's, neutron's or electron's) radius. It would
>>certainly not be either anthropomorphic, arbitrary (since it is a building
>>block of the universe) or changeable.
>> >
>A popular measure of time is based on comparing the thing being measured to
>the vibratory rate of a cessium atom, which changes very little. But it
>still compares the motion of A with the motion of B. That's something
>that's done in the mind, even though both items used in the comparison are
>outside the mind. To the best of my knowledge, the universe doesn't go
>around comparing things with each other. What's arbitrary is the items we
>choose to compare with each other.
>
We compare things to each other, and last time I checked, we were part of the universe we inhabit.
>
>Grant
>
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