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From: Robin Faichney <robin@faichney.demon.co.uk>
Organization: Reborn Technology
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Subject: Re: new line: what's the point?
Date sent: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 05:13:14 +0000
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> On Fri, 03 Mar 2000, Joe E. Dees wrote:
> >
> >>...do you or don't you deny the possibility of
> >> mechanistic memetic explanations?
> >>
> >Not if it involves the excision of meaning (semantics), intention or
> >selfawareness, but I do not believe it does.
>
> You have said that meme selection occurs only via conscious choice. Do you
> think that is compatable with mechanistic memetic explanation?
>
I believe that there can be accidentally or inadvertantly
communicated (on either or both the transmission and the
reception end) memes, but the very distinction exists only given
the prior existence of conscious choice, with which the accidental
and inadvertant can be compared and contrasted. Most memes,
and especially successfully selected ones, are transmitted and
attended to by choice, because to choose to transmit and/or
receive them is believed to hold some positive value for the
transmitter/receiver, or to choose to forbear from such memetic
transmission/reception is believed to hold some negative value for
the transmitter/receiver, or both.
> --
> Robin Faichney
>
>
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