Re: electric meme bombs

From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Fri 01 Nov 2002 - 09:57:26 GMT

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    > > > ----- Original Message -----
    > > > From: <joedees@bellsouth.net
    > > > > > On Wednesday, October 30, 2002, at 02:03 ,
    > > > > > joedees@bellsouth.net
    > > > > > wrote: > > > you absentmindedly hum it in their presence > > >
    > > > > > >
    > > > Sounds like behavior to me. > > > When you keep hearing it cycling
    > > > in your head, that is not behavior; but > unless you hear(that is,
    > > > can remember) it there, you cannot hum it out > loud.
    > Kenneth,
    > > > But, I 've tried to explain this in an earlier post, what Wade is
    > > > trying to say, IMO I think, atleast that is the idea I got, is
    > > > that by humming a tune in your head, some behaviors are in a
    > > > different way represented in the outside world. If a song is
    > > > cycling in your head your behavior will have been changed.... for
    > > > example you can walk " funny ".....and noone will ever know why !
    > Joe,
    > > But you can also be sitting quietly, entranced by the tune...
    >
    > Wouldn 't that be noticed by others if any !?
    > And if there were none, wouldn 't the tune have changed your inner
    > feelings and emotions for the rest of the day afterall !? And if you
    > were to be alone in the house, would you have been changed in either
    > way if you sat down for minutes/ hours quietly in the kitchen !? Quiet
    > or not, observers or not, some changes has occured and in a sense they
    > will be represented in the next behavior(s) or at least have an
    > influence.
    >
    > Each and everyone is a symptom which points towards the
    > working of other (f)actors....
    >
    Including internal ones, without which you would not know and could not re-meme-ber the tune.
    >
    > Kenneth
    >
    >
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