Message-Id: <199707182109.RAA19298@brickbat9.mindspring.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 17:14:44 -0500
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
From: bbenzon@mindspring.com (Bill Benzon)
Subject: Re: The /doggie/ "meme"
Ton Maas,
You seem to think you are correcting some falacies of which I am guilty.
Yet I don't see much difference between the end of my statement as you
quoted it and your correction.
BB
>>but
>>then I don't think that it is culture which is encoded. All that's
>>encoded is the capacity for culture, which is, admittedly, merely a
>>verbal formula. But....
>
TM
>Therefore, nothing even remotely like "culture"
>can be encoded in DNA. We can only say that "culture" is facilitated by
>certain human potentials resulting from both embryology and genetics.
>
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