From: "Aaron Agassi" <agassi@erols.com>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: Non-human memes (again)
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 11:52:00 -0400
In-Reply-To: <19990829140957.AAA14045@camail2.harvard.edu@[205.240.180.28]>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk [mailto:fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk]On Behalf
> Of Wade T.Smith
> Sent: Sunday, August 29, 1999 10:07 AM
> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: Non-human memes (again)
>
>
> >So we can count birdsong as a meme.
>
> Well, yes- I am not arguing that monkeys are birds, or that birds do not
> imitate.... I am arguing that the macaque report is fraudulent, and
> should be ignored.
Yes, that is fairly specific, and unless it's the only evidence available,
which appears not to be the case, impact upon theory would be limited or
even negligible.
So, the this one report is attacked, and in response, the entire theory it
redundantly corroborates is then needlessly defended. How is that analyzed,
Memetically?
>
> - Wade
>
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