Re: Abstractism

From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Sat Feb 02 2002 - 22:25:11 GMT

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On Friday, February 1, 2002, at 09:04 , Joe Dees wrote:

> If I was to give the same message to an Urdu speaker, (s)he wouldn't
> understand it.

Nor would a honey bee's dance be understood by another species of
honeybee, or even another hive.

Cultural context was not part of my condition making this non-memetic.

- Wade

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