Subject: Re: Dawkins' Mutation Test for Replicators
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 16:58:51 -0400
From: "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
On 08/29/99 16:43 the inimitable Chris Lofting made this comment =8B
>In the 100 monkeys so a critical genetic correlation was reached that
>allowed the monkeys on the other islands to 'suddenly' become aware of the
>washing process; this suddeness in the form of a resonance, no explicit li=
nk
>just a sudden 'idea'.
Again... again.... This _did not happen_. This was a _fabrication_. There
_was_ and _is_ no transmission by supernatural means to a group of
macaques on _another_ island. Zilch. Nada.
What is obvious here is your intense _desire_ (which matches the urge of
the original fabricator) to _want_ this to happen.
And _wanting_ things to happen is not going to prove anything to an
already unwilling audience, especially in a fledgling endeavor. They'll
cite the falseness of your source and be done with you.
- Wade
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