Subject: Re: Dawkins' Mutation Test for Replicators
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 20:46:29 -0400
From: "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
On 08/28/99 13:03 the inimitable Chris Lofting made this comment =8B
>I can demonstrate that these experiments, all based on the use of recursiv=
e
>dichotomisations, could be illusions in that their structure is such that
>they force the emergence of implied wave interference patterns due to the
>use of dichotomies. However, if we take this into consideration and STILL
>find 'influences' at a distance (whether spatial or genetic) then the 100
>monkeys concept may have some foundations!
Well, then... Wave your hands with as much force as you want, but woo-woo
is still woo-woo.
Fraud is still fraud in this universe.
- Wade
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