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On Sunday,23 jan 2000 13.50 Scott Chase wrote:
" Morphic resonance is a parapsychological geist factor and we must not confuse
morphogenetic fields with morphic resonance." I do NOT!!
More off as I pointed it out,meme-complexes are in some extend comparable with
morphogenetic fields_as selfstabilising structures which resists attempts to be
takin' over from other memes/fields by creating conditions of belief (memes) and by
transmission of learned systems into habitual traits.
The unit/vector/agent or field in which meme-complexes then are the building blocks,responsible for the characteristic form/acceptable facts/behaviours or the
admissible organisation of cultural/political/biological meme-structures,on each
level of complexity/validity and usefullness,belongs to preceding thereupon suppor-
ting structures/meme-complexes:-the build up is organised upon the sort of self-
replicated information (imitation if you like) of past meme-complexes for each
suchlike idea/argumant/belief or task;the influence of previous structures of activity
is called morphic resonance_how bigger the degree of similarity (or copy fidelity),
how greater the influence of morphic resonance (or how great the possibilty of the
memes to propagate becomes).
To my view,meme-complexes are morphogenetic (information) fields which shape
order by/participates in structures with which they are or will be connected (by
morphic resonance if you like) by influencin' events/ideas/arguments/organisations,
which are_from a human perspective,as really experienced/felt/alive to see;they
lay upon the genetic/psychological possible results of natural,selective and com-
plex processes a distinctive pattern.There is in some sense a group of cells awai-
ting to be subdivided in subsequent development-issues.
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