On May 8, 2005, at 6:47 PM, Maru Dubshinki wrote:
I'm afraid I don't see your post's relevance- I suggested that counsciousness coulda been a random event, which would enable itself to be culturally passed down (and really enabling cultural inheritance in the first place, instead of depending on genes.).
But it still won't work, because culture is fragile. Look at all the ancient languages we can't translate today. Cultures lost entirely.
What's the mechanism by which consciousness is culturally transmitted? One doesn't practice it like a language, does one?
-- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress "The Seven-Year Mirror" http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf
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