Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id CAA15404 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Tue, 5 Feb 2002 02:34:26 GMT Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 18:28:42 -0800 Message-Id: <200202050228.g152Sgo12809@mail13.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: [66.156.195.136] From: "Joe Dees" <joedees@addall.com> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: Abstractism Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is)
>Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 17:25:11 -0500
> Re: Abstractism "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu> memetics@mmu.ac.ukReply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>
>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.
>
Only because it's an encoding of the direction/distance from a particular hive to a food source. A honeybee from another hive might follow the same directions from IT'S hive and come up empty.
>
>Cultural context was not part of my condition making this non-memetic.
>
>- Wade
>
>
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