Re: Standard definition

From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Wed 30 Oct 2002 - 22:28:22 GMT

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    > On Wednesday, October 30, 2002, at 01:26 , joedees@bellsouth.net
    > wrote:
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    > > But an intact and lasting meme is exactly what is necessary to
    > > explain multiple token performances of a behavior type; and the
    > > locus in which such an entity may reside is one's meme-ory. The
    > > thought is parent to the action, and logically and empirically prior
    > > to it.
    >
    > The spider continues to make unique and environment-conditioned webs
    > (web2 not being web1) without any speck of a meme.
    >
    That is hard-wired behavior, and each species of spider weaves a different web, but the selfsame web pattern as its conspecifics. Now, the capacity for language in general may be hard-wired in humans, but the capacity for English, Chinese, Tagalog or Urdu is not, because these are created, not inherited, specificities.
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    > There is absolutely no requirement made at any point that intent or
    > 'logical thought' be a parent to an action, and no requirement for
    > conscious memory prior to performance.
    >
    I'll bet you thought of that answer before you typed it, and that fact in and of itself negates your stance.
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    > There is thus no requirement for a meme, intact, lasting, or
    > checkered, meme-oried or layered, spongy or firm, as a prior entity to
    > performance. All that is required is already part of human nature and
    > development. All of that, and an audience. The meme does require an
    > audience, present or prepared for.
    >
    Nope. Specific cultures are not hard-wired human nature; otherwise there would be just one of them (and a single language, too). What is created must be transmitted and received to be communicated, and must be stored to be subsequently manifested in action. And BTW, even hard-wired behaviors are hard-wired in those brians you insist upon avoiding; it's just that greater cognitive complexity is required to generate individual variants.
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    > Sometimes the trail of the meme, an artifact, sits without an audience
    > capable of attempting another performance, as in a museum, observable
    > only
    >
    In that case, the museum is within the skull, because that is where the between'performance-tokens meme-type resides. Or do you think it exists in a magnetic resonance aether, hmmmm? because most surely it exists; otherwise, you are anti-Occamically multiplying entities WAAAY beyond necessity, by insisting that each performance is nonrelationally sui generis, rather than they all being action-tokens generated by a common cognitive meme-type template.
    >
    > - Wade
    >
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