Re: electric meme bombs

From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Wed 16 Oct 2002 - 20:59:55 GMT

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    > On Wednesday, October 16, 2002, at 02:58 , joedees@bellsouth.net
    > wrote:
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    > > it resides in you meme-ory
    >
    > Your performance of it does not.
    >
    No, but that which makes the performance possible DOES.
    >
    > 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.
    >
    A memoryless person is a memeless person. They can't do, or say, anything meaningful; at most they would be randomly moving vegetables.
    >
    > 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?
    >
    Because that's where you re-meme-ber it. It IS the 'usual' meme-ory."
    >
    > - Wade
    >
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