Re: Words and memes: criteria for acceptance of new belief or meme

From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Sat Feb 09 2002 - 20:14:28 GMT

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    >> (Colloquially, we refer to this phenomena by saying that
    >> someone is 'hard to convince', or 'gullible', or 'stubborn'.)

    The equation of memes with beliefs is one of the prime reasons I
    advanced to the behavior-only stance. I don't think there is any
    reasonable proof to show that one's beliefs are what prompts one's
    behavior. (Hell, we have a second brain that tells us when we're
    hungry....)

    But there is reasonable proof, in the form of observations and
    artefacts, that one's behavior is intended to transfer meaning.

    - Wade

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