Re: CFCs and ethics

From: Dan Fabulich (daniel.fabulich@yale.edu)
Date: Sun Nov 07 1999 - 15:40:12 MST


'What is your name?' 'Spike Jones.' 'IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOUR NAME
IS!!!':

> Consider for instance the <faithfulness in marriage>. Most would
> recognize that this meme is solidly CFC based, and yet I cannot shake
> this one off even if I tried, and it is unclear to me that I should try.

Actually, this is probably an instinct we've inherited. Pinker makes a
solid game theoretic argument in favor of appearing to have an instinct
like this in "How the Mind Works;" and, arguably, the best way to appear
to have a given instinct is to actually have it.

-Dan

      -unless you love someone-
    -nothing else makes any sense-
           e.e. cummings



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