You suffer under the delusion that certain things are something anyway
regardless of your defining them.
That worldview works very well for Newtonian physics, less well for quantum
physics, not at all well for computer programming, and disastrously for
relationships with other human beings.
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Author, "Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme"
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-virus@lucifer.com [mailto:owner-virus@lucifer.com] On Behalf Of
Wade T.Smith
Sent: Thursday, August 20, 1998 1:03 PM
To: virus@lucifer.com
Subject: Re: virus: reductionism and neurology
>(Yes, Wade, this is how silly your arguments look to those outside of
/your/
>mind.)
OK. I step back. Fact is, we can take known segments _out_ of animal
brains and erase certain (read migratory) behaviors.
Did I ever say behavior was unobservable, or that observation was not
worthwhile? Nope....
All I ever did say was that I am equally as certain no one knows what a
meme is as what a meme ain't. I'm waitin' on the fence for either
proposition to be falsified.
That's all.
Is that really silly?
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Wade T. Smith
morbius@channel1.com
wade_smith@harvard.edu
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