Re: electric meme bombs

From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Wed 16 Oct 2002 - 20:57:07 GMT

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    > On Wednesday, October 16, 2002, at 02:58 , joedees@bellsouth.net
    > wrote:
    >
    > > I sang the words I rehearsed
    >
    > So you claim.
    >
    > The only meme you _have_ performed for me is writing this claim. It is
    > the only thing I have apprehended.
    >
    > A claim is not a song.
    >
    > I might continue the 'Joe doesn't know the correct words to London
    > Bridge is Falling Down' contention, but that isn't a meme, either.
    >
    > My writing it was, though.
    >
    > As long as someone reads it.
    >
    > No-one heard your song.
    >
    > It was not a meme.
    >
    > The music I'm listening to on my own computer, in the office, right
    > now, is, though. Other people are hearing it. It's a minor behavior,
    > effecting what other people listen to, but, it is right here, and
    > right now.
    >
    > Of course, it is not a meme you have perception of, just my account of
    > it.
    >
    > Which is all you might need to know to accomplish a similar thing, in
    > your own office, if allowed.
    >
    > But it would only be a similar thing.
    >
    > And it is with similar things that memetics is involved, not with
    > identical things.
    >
    Which is why the neural excitation pattern that accommodates the performance of a certain behavior is memetically equivalent to the neural excitation pattern that an observer internalizes, that allows them to later perform a recognizably similar behavior (as two tokens of a type), in spite of the fact that the neural excitation patterns are arranged somewhat differently in each brain; what matters is that their interactions with their specific cortical environments facilitates the performance of the selfsame (or similar enough to be replicative) communicative behavior, and this is why they are memes (and not performances of memes).
    >
    > - Wade
    >
    >
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