From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Wed 16 Oct 2002 - 18:18:19 GMT
>
> On Wednesday, October 16, 2002, at 01:05 , joedees@bellsouth.net
> wrote:
>
> > You can do the work ahead of time, and then perform it later.
>
> I'll say that on my job resume, and see if it will fly with any
> employers.
>
It'll do just fine, and always has, with mental workers, such as
mathematicians, who can evolve their innovations in spare moments.
What you don't seem to realize is that your strategy failed thirty years
ago. At that time, behaviorists insisted that since they could not look
into the black box between stimulus and response, that it didn't exist for
them. This definitional delusion was shattered by the cognitive
revolution of the '70's and '80's.
If you insist that a meme does not exist until it is acted out, then you
obviate the necessity for observation of others' performances or
listening to others' communications, for by your definition, no meme can
be thusly replicated. A person who views a performance, reads a book
or parses a communication, by this definition, is no more likely to
engage in the performed behavior, or a behavior the essentials of which
are communicated in spoken or written discourse, than a person who
did not receive same, since by your definition, there is no internal
meme, so one could not have passed inside the viewer, reader or
listener. Thus by your excision of internalization you have cut off the
possibility of memetic replication, since there can be nothing beneath
the surface of the witness to which a witnessed behavior might adhere,
either initially, or between performances. Since behaviorism failed
when applied to human action generally, why should it succeed for the
subset of replicable actions?
>
> - Wade
>
>
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