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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