Re: memetics-digest V1 #1297

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Date: Sun 02 Mar 2003 - 15:54:28 GMT

  • Next message: Wade T. Smith: "Re: memetics-digest V1 #1297"

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    > On Sunday, March 2, 2003, at 01:26 AM, memetics-digest wrote:
    >
    > > What is required is semantic content, that is,
    > > that the information can be understood by a self-conscious awareness
    > > and replicated between a multiplicity of them.
    >
    > There is no need for the _same_ information (or whatever one calls the
    > remembered process) for one individual to perform a similar behavior
    > as someone else. In fact, there are more than enough examples of
    > non-identical referents producing similar artifacts and behaviors that
    > there is no sense whatsoever to claiming the information, the semantic
    > content if you will (although I reject that term as well), within one
    > individual's brain be identical, or even a copy, of the information
    > within another's.
    >
    > Similarity of behavior or artifact is all that is necessary, and
    > culture needs only to use what is necessary to continue.
    >
    > A set of similar behaviors, within cultural contexts, are what I call
    > memes.
    >
    > What is understood is not discernible, perhaps never will be, and
    > certainly does not have to be identical to perform similar behaviors.
    >
    > The memeinthemind model is dependent upon a ghost.
    >
    No, it is dependent upon a multiplicity of similar, but not identical, minds. The precise encodings of the memes do not have to be identical; rather they must, when interacting with differing yet similar cognitive gestalts, result in those gestalts producing recognizably similar behaviors (including bodily action and its subsets communication and artifact creation).
    >
    > - Wade
    >
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