From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Fri 01 Nov 2002 - 17:58:21 GMT
>
> On Friday, November 1, 2002, at 06:23 , joedees@bellsouth.net wrote:
>
> > But how can performances resemble each other without their being
> > anchored in common thoughts? Short answer: they can't.
>
> I agree.
>
> So- you are calling 'common thoughts' - 'memes'.
>
> (And I am calling 'common behaviors' - 'bemes'. We might actually have
> a marriage of sorts there. I just demand that culture requires
> behavior, not just common thoughts.)
>
And I demand that culture also requires common thoughts, not just
behavior. BOTH are necessary, but neither is sufficient alone.
Selection and mutation happen mainly internally and cognitively, while
communication and transmission - that is, attempts at replication - is an
external action function. Without both, memetic evolution cannot occur.
>
> I just think, that because we are all homo sapiens living on the same
> world, that common thoughts would be just that- totally unwonderful
> happenstances of the way we are.
>
> I still think it's what we do with them that matters.
>
We can't do anything with what we do not have. So having them
matters just as much.
>
> - Wade
>
>
>
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