Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id SAA10189 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Sat, 4 Mar 2000 18:09:08 GMT To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 10:06:39 -0800 From: "Scott Chase" <hemidactylus@my-Deja.com> Message-ID: <DBLLHEIHLDNNCCAA@my-deja.com> X-Sent-Mail: off X-Mailer: MailCity Service Subject: Re: J.Z. Young on mnemons X-Sender-Ip: 209.240.200.164 Organization: My Deja Email (http://www.my-deja.com:80) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Language: en Content-Length: 781 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
--On Sat, 04 Mar 2000 08:40:11 Scott Chase wrote: >This is an apt quote from J.Z. Young: > >(bq) "Incidentally many modern ideas on the subject go back to Richard Semon (1904) who wrote much of the mneme or mnemic faculty and invented the word engram. I do not think however that anyone has used mnemon or a similar word in quite the * sense of the module now to be proposed" (eq) > >ref: > >Young JZ. 1965. The organization of a memory system. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London (163): 285-320 > > The asterisk marks where I made an error in typing the quote from Young's article and added the term same. Sorry. The quote reads correctly now. Ugggh!
Scott
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