Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id OAA20612 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Wed, 10 May 2000 14:01:02 +0100 Message-ID: <2D1C159B783DD211808A006008062D31CEB16C@inchna.stir.ac.uk> From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk> To: "'memetics@mmu.ac.uk'" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Subject: RE: A useless meme for Chuck Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 13:59:16 +0100 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Well perhaps, but surely no-one likes someone who is whistling or humming a
tune that they can't get out of their head when it then infects them too!
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> From: Tyger
> Reply To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2000 2:53 am
> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: A useless meme for Chuck
>
> maybe I can get Chuck out of the payment..:-)
> an irritating tune is supposedly 'Bad' for the recipient. However that
> disregards the fact that the brain involved got hold of the said tune be
> being exposed to it in a given society. what is useful to this brain is
> being part of that society. the fact that this society creates a tune
> which
> is irritating to the individual, is a side product to be worked with on an
> individual , meme- contra-meme. Hence , this tune is Good for the
> recipient
> even (and maybe even in spite of) if the recipient being irritated by it.
> someone mentioned bureaucracy, and that may be looked at similarly,
> irritating on the discreet level usefull on the meta-level, revert to
> useful
> on the discreet level.
>
> Tyger
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Diana Stevenson" <dianaxf@hotmail.com>
> To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 1:54 AM
> Subject: A useless meme for Chuck
>
>
> >
> > Chuck - an example of a useless meme is surely one of Dawkins'
> originals:
> an
> > irritating tune which goes round and round in our minds. If I have a
> tune
> > on the brain last thing at night, I wake up with it still on the brain
> in
> > the morning and it can recur throughout the day. Usually it's a tune I
> > don't even like!
> >
> > While the tune may have been useful to the person who "wrote" it, can
> you
> > tell me how it is useful to those of us whose brains continually
> replicate
> > it? Or why we will sing or whistle it to pass it on? (I exclude
> advertising
> > jingles - those aren't the ones that stick with me).
> >
> > Do I qualify for the promised $100?:)
> >
> > Diana
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