From: Wade Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Wed 16 Oct 2002 - 19:43:15 GMT
On Wednesday, October 16, 2002, at 02:58 , joedees@bellsouth.net wrote:
> it resides in you meme-ory
Your performance of it does not.
I do know the song, but have not performed it in many years. I do not
consider my memory of it as a meme, in any way, as you know.
I do consider the time I performed it with my children to be a meme. And
if they remember it enough to perform it again, the meme will be
replicated. But there is no meme in my head, and no 'meme-ory' (which is
a nice little coinage, I think, to bolster the contention that memes are
mental items) apart from the usual memory.
Why is 'meme-ory' required by the meme-as-mental-item model?
- Wade
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