From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Tue 18 Feb 2003 - 01:46:07 GMT
> on 2/17/03 8:25 PM, joedees@bellsouth.net at joedees@bellsouth.net
> wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> >>
> >> More empty boilerplate. You need to say why people prefer some
> >> memes over others. To simply say that some memes spread further
> >> because they're "better at getting into new human minds" doesn't
> >> say anything very helpful. That's as useful as saying that water
> >> runs down hill because it prefers being at the bottom of hills.
> >>
> > Actually, umm, no. Water is not a conscious agent as people are; it
> > cannot prefer like people can.
>
> But you memeticists don't talk about people as agents. You're always
> talking about memes as agents. In memetics human minds/brains are
> just passive respositories of meme-food.
>
Not Grant, not me, and not many others. Memes are no more
conscious or self-consciously aware than genes are, but people are.
We choose which memes to accept and which to reject based upon a
number of factors, including our personality dispositions and ourr
personal histories, but many of our choices are made after due
reflection and consideration, and a further search for information.
>
> Bill B
>
>
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