Re: Words and memes

From: Wade Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Fri Feb 08 2002 - 15:57:27 GMT

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    On Friday, February 8, 2002, at 11:25 , Philip Jonkers wrote:

    > But I guess you mean it in a more metaphorical sense.

    Yes, as I replied to Joe- I meant in that sense of directioned
    process- nature and evolution is not a backtracking thing.
    Blindness implies wandering around in all directions.

    It is tunnel-visioned and relentless, if you will, and not
    blind, although, yes, tunnel-vision is its own form of blindness.

    - Wade

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