Re: virus: Re: virus-digest V2 #208

Tim Abbott (tmca@cfht.hawaii.edu)
Mon, 4 Aug 1997 21:54:11 -1000 (HST)

Reed Konsler writes:
> I thought it was obvious. The media and the pattern are the only
> significant things.
> Content is irrelevant.

And yet content determines viability.

The above is like saying the animal's environmental skills are irrelevant
to the transmission of the gene, which determined those skills in the first
place.

Tim

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