Re: There is never pure perception or pure action

From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Sun 03 Nov 2002 - 07:58:17 GMT

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    > On Sunday, November 3, 2002, at 02:33 , joedees@bellsouth.net wrote:
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    > > What is stored in the brain, that is, peme-perceptions, would _have
    > > to be_ [emphasis mine] memes.
    >
    > So you, and only you, insist.
    >
    And Dawkins, and Brodie, and Lynch, and Blackmore, and Dennett, and Aunger, and Gladwell, and on and on and on...
    >
    > What then is memory? Some 'alternative' storage system?
    >
    No, memes are part of what is stored in memory.
    >
    > > 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.
    >
    And only Gatherer shares this view.
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    > 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.
    >
    Performance is the external instantiation of a token of an internal meme-type.
    >
    > - Wade
    >
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