Re: A meme is...

From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Thu 17 Oct 2002 - 02:52:38 GMT

  • Next message: Grant Callaghan: "Re: A meme is..."

    > At 07:34 PM 16/10/02 -0500, you wrote:
    > >...a mental predisposition to engage in instances of certain
    > >behaviors more frequently than one might engage in them in its
    > >absence.
    > >
    > What about reproduction and interpersonal or transgenerational
    > movement Joe. Also, IMHO, the 'mental predispossession' of which you
    > write is a culturally specific creation which is passed from the
    > amorphus culture onto the recipient as a subtle 'formwork' for social
    > contract. Yours is only a fragment of a definition. Pleeeese think
    > more and write less or I, and others, will filter you out. Jeremy
    >
    But such a mental disposition, once absorbed from another, contains within itself an exigency to replicate by enabling a repetition of the behavior the observation of which caused the absorption in the first place. And having witnessed your contributions, I care not if you filter me.
    >
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