Re: There is never pure perception or pure action

From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Sun 03 Nov 2002 - 07:48:35 GMT

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    On Sunday, November 3, 2002, at 02:33 , joedees@bellsouth.net wrote:

    > What is stored in the brain, that is, peme-perceptions, would _have to
    > be_ [emphasis mine]
    > memes.

    So you, and only you, insist.

    What then is memory? Some 'alternative' storage system?

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

    The unit of cultural transmission is the performance. Not some unidentified, unfindable, unexplained, something in the mind that somehow precedes it.

    I am not denying, separating, or in any way unrelating- in point of fact, I am insisting upon the conjoining of- the performer, the observer, and the time/space of performance. All of these are the performance. Perhaps _your_ definition of performance is what is preventing you from understanding. So, let's have it.

    - Wade

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