From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Thu 17 Oct 2002 - 02:59:42 GMT
On Wednesday, October 16, 2002, at 10:43 , joedees@bellsouth.net wrote:
> there may be many coins circulated by a
> person, but they are all stamped from a single internal neural pattern
> encoding die.
The fact that every coin stamped in a particular mint is not identical
would be enough, I think, to state that each meme (or beme, to unconfuse
the models), is also unique.
Whether or not a single internal neural pattern is established, is, I
also think, a matter for future elucidation, (and not something that I
am ready to accept at this point, regardless of model), and I do hope it
becomes possible, because-
> There's only one neural encoding per meme per person,
- is an as yet unsubstantiated claim.
That there is only one behavior per person is self-evident, but maybe
that's just as much of a claim.
- Wade
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