Re: electric meme bombs

From: Wade Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Thu 31 Oct 2002 - 20:52:03 GMT

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    On Thursday, October 31, 2002, at 03:32 , joedees@bellsouth.net wrote:

    > Memes are irretrieveably semantic, that is, they are patterns which
    > encode meaning in the mind. They also cause it to be encoded in
    > behavior (both demonstration and communication, although
    > communication is a second-level encoding, that is, an encoding of an
    > encoding).

    Meanings might or might not be encoded in the mind, but I see no need to memeify them.

    But, the processes of the mind are very much in dispute- I'd rather leave them to another discipline.

    - Wade

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