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...good news for the Crimson doesn't stop there. In the official ITA National Team Tennis Rankings released today, Harvard has jumped six spots to claim the No. 17 ranking. The rankings take into account all matches played up to April 12, so the victories against Penn and Princeton were not included...
...good news for the Crimson doesn't stop there. In the official ITA National Team Tennis Rankings released today, Harvard has jumped six spots to claim the No. 17 ranking. The rankings take into account all matches played up to April 12, so the victories against Penn and Princeton were not included...
...this view. Tufts University professor Daniel Dennett, an enthusiastic and prolific memeticist, acknowledges that it's an unsettling philosophy. "People are terribly afraid that this is going to rob them of authorship and creativity, that it will be the swallowing up of the self." That fear, he speculates, may account for some of the vehemence of the opponents of memetics. "The view of the self that emerges from a proper evolutionary account," he says, "is different enough from the tradition that it can get people fairly upset." One advantage of memetics over tradition, Dennett points out, is that...
...science. Nor does he accept the nest-of-memes view of consciousness. "To be honest, I don't even know what that means," admits Pinker. The problem, he says, is that memetics assumes the brain is essentially passive, like a Petri dish awaiting infection. It doesn't account for the self that responds subjectively, that feels sensations such as love, envy and pain. "Babies are conscious," he points out. "That's why we don't operate on them without anesthesia. And their minds have not been infected by memes...
ROTH ALERT Taxpayers who converted from a traditional to a Roth IRA last year may need to switch back--and fast. Some people who shifted to the new, tax-free retirement accounts then had the good fortune to earn more than $100,000 in 1998--which means they don't qualify for a Roth. Now, if they don't reverse course and file an amended 1998 return by April 15, their account will be taxed, and they'll also possibly face a 10% penalty for early withdrawal...