Re: There is never pure perception or pure action

From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Sun 03 Nov 2002 - 07:05:20 GMT

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    On Sunday, November 3, 2002, at 12:45 , joedees@bellsouth.net wrote:

    > But the brain is the only place in which memes may reside between
    > multiple performances of them; it is where the meme-type is stored
    > between exhibitions of tokens of it.

    The perceptions of pemes are stored in memory, which is the brain.

    I do not deny the workings of the brain, at all.

    I just don't presume to know them, or call them names before I do.

    > All perception involves action, and vice-versa, so to deny one
    > component of the system in order to absolutize the other is to separate
    > in theory what is perpetually conjoined in practice

    I totally agree with this. I do not separate them in any way. I still fail to see how you can think I do.

    - Wade

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