Re: virus: Dis-content

Tim Abbott (tmca@cfht.hawaii.edu)
Tue, 5 Aug 1997 09:43:33 -1000 (HST)

Reed Konsler writes:
> >From: tmca@cfht.hawaii.edu (Tim Abbott)
> >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.
> Incorrect.
> >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.
> Exactly.

I think you'd better justify the position you're holding, especially
as it appears to be counter to the theory of natural selection.

> That was very well put, especially considering you apparently
> don't agree with it at all. You must have some training as a lawyer,
> and actor, or a scientist.

Read the .sig.

Tim

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