From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Thu 31 Oct 2002 - 20:55:32 GMT
>
> 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.
>
We can't, for that is where memes are stored. Memes are, precisely,
that subset of memories which we pass on to other minds via
demonstration or communication.
>
> - Wade
>
>
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