Re: virus: Original meme.

Brett Lane Robertson (unameit@tctc.com)
Fri, 18 Jul 1997 17:49:10 -0500


Josh,

I meant to say that hunting and gathering are like a right and left hand,
the one cannot occur without the other...but seems that you would have to
get up and hunt for something to gather...so i think that looking is a
prerequisite to finding.

As to instinct...there is a definitional problem here; but, if by instinct
one means anything that doesn't require thought...then there is that
instinct-thing about an apple instinctually falling from a tree.

Brett (other thoughts interspersed within the quoted material...)

At 02:58 PM 7/18/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Brett Lane Robertson wrote:
>> But, hunting may not be instinctual in humans; on the
>> other hand, it is a necessary prerequisite for gathering.

>Really? Is this true for all species or just ours? Herbivores are
>essentially gatherers aren't they? Sorry if I miss the difference here.

BRETT: NO, THEY ARE ESSENTIALLY HUNTERS...UNLESS/UNTIL THEY BRING THINGS
BACK TO THEIR HOME.

>> Is the "hunting"
>> done by antibodies in the body either instinct or instilled? Or, is hunting
>> a "structure", a process that occurs as a direct physical result of the
>> movement of matter and its natural settling into an optimum ordered
existence?

>Excuse me if I offer another chance to show my limited education so
>far. But aren't instincts, at least partially, based upon urges created
>by chemicals in the entity? If I am correct, then antibodies are
>operating under instinct. I don't think I can elaborate any further,
>it's been a few years since Biology.

huh?

Brett
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