Ian Lance Taylor scripsit: > Yes, but my reading of your paper is that you are claiming that my > primary motivation is the ``reputation-game.'' I think that this is comparable to saying, in biology, that a tree "wants" to grow tall in order to reach the sun. This does not say that an introspective tree would not assign a quite different motive. It is what Dennett calls the third-person viewpoint, or hetero-phenomenology. I think you can safely read Eric as claiming that hackers behave *as if* they were motivated by the reputation game. > In general, I think that evolutionary psychology and sociobiology > suffer from ``just-so syndrome,'' by which I mean a tendency to > explain behaviour by constructing ``just-so stories,'' a la Kipling. I quite agree with you here. Again, the *as if* rule saves as much as is needed for Eric's purposes. -- John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am a member of a civilization. --David Brin
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