Re: new memetics article

From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Sun 12 Jan 2003 - 20:19:52 GMT

  • Next message: Keith Henson: "Re: new memetics article"

    > Inexact copies are one thing, but when the copy is different from the
    > original in almost every instance and radically different in most,
    > it's a whole different kettle of fish. The rules of a game may be the
    > same for everyone, but the way each person uses those rules to win a
    > game is different. No two chess games are exact copies of each other.
    > If they are, it's usually not a game but an instruction. That makes
    > the two things different.
    >
    > In addition, most transfers of information do not result in a copy.
    > Out of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of people who witness an
    > action or hear an expanation, only one or two will try to duplicate
    > the action. Those who do will have to try many times to duplicate it
    > exactly. Even then, there will still differences in performance and
    > what the performance is used for.
    >
    > This is not Darwinism in my opinion. I doubt it is even Lamarkism.
    >
    What is being communicated is not the action so much as it is the intention. Memes are semantic and signifying entities, and it is meanings that are being memetically propagated.
    >
    > Grant
    >
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