From: "Paul Marsden" <PaulMarsden@email.msn.com>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: On Gatherer's behaviourist stance
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 12:47:53 +0100
Nick Rose said
PS: I still think we'd be better off with Cloak's definitions ;)
Agreed, but I don't you think that Cloak account undermines the putative
distinction between imitation and "ordinary learning" (which I don't think I
accept anyway). Can't "ordinary learning" could be understood as the
imitation of i-culture - if you take i-culture (NB i = instruction) to be
the functional relationship between two objects of m-culture? Trial and
error is simply the generation and testing of relationships (instructions)
until one fits (i.e. imitates)
m-culture. What I am to say is that, from Cloak's position, can't all
learning can be understood as imitation?
Paul Marsden
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