From: Van oost Kenneth (kennethvanoost@belgacom.net)
Date: Sat 02 Nov 2002 - 19:56:16 GMT
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From: "Wade Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu>
> On Friday, November 1, 2002, at 11:32 , Van oost Kenneth wrote:
> > everytime it has to be built from the ground up
Wade,
> Gack, I can't see how I proposed that. It is constantly changing, yes,
> in the way a river changes, but not renewing from the ground up.
> Like the frames in an animated movie, there are fields of similarities
> in every moment, and these things have the capacity for continuance-
> genetically this is determined by genes, but memetically, I say it is
> determined by bemes, which themselves are also like frames from an
> animated movie- with fields of similarities, and culture can be
> continued through their creation/performance and
> apprehension/reperformance- something each individual does, yes, every
> time newly, as each beme exists only for that time it is in performance,
> just like a symphony, which, in actuation, only exists while it is being
> played.
Ok, Wade, my mistake, but than I don 't really understand where your
scheme originates, where is the bias where newbie bemes come into
existence, or did I missed that !?
Where is the info where along bemes renew themselves all the time,
where does a new behavior comes from_ not one that renewed itself,
but a complete new one !
Kenneth
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