Re: electric meme bombs

From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Thu 31 Oct 2002 - 17:58:42 GMT

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    > On Thursday, October 31, 2002, at 03:05 , joedees@bellsouth.net wrote:
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    > > If it is indeed "based upon his apprehension of the original", then
    > > it is not totally new, but, along with the original, a token of
    > > their common meme-type.
    >
    > Nothing is primarily totally new, with few exceptions. Even alien
    > life, if it took root here after being carried upon meteorites, is not
    > new to the universe.
    >
    > But, yes, the common meme-type is what is similar, and allows
    > patterned tracking, and provides the continuity we may call culture.
    > The forces behind each bemes' creation are not new, but DNA-instructed
    > ancient, if not downright hoary.
    >
    No, some are hard-wired and some are experientially imprinted; that is, some are genetic and some are cultural.
    >
    > Beme1 is never beme2, but, because of sources and environment, can
    > differ in only minuscule ways. Traditions are enforced to similarity
    > by definition. Among spoken history telling societies, the most
    > revered of the tale-tellers is the one who never changes a word. We
    > value continuity, choosing to put on our pants left leg first every
    > time.
    >
    Beme (x1), (x2), (x3), ...(xn) may all be seen as externally performed/manifested tokens of the internally stored template meme- type x.
    >
    > But, what things are based upon (the meme in the mind operating in
    > meme-ory) is highly conjectural, at least, at this point. May this
    > lose its mystery, as it is indeed doing. Whether or not the
    > nomenclature will prove continuous is another question, on all points.
    >
    One other thing that the internal allows us to do is conjecture (free and creative memodification) .
    >
    > - Wade
    >
    >
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