From: Scott Chase (ecphoric@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon 03 Mar 2003 - 04:22:16 GMT
>From: joedees@bellsouth.net
>Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>Subject: Re: memetics-digest V1 #1298
>Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 11:03:24 -0600
>
> >
> > On Sunday, March 2, 2003, at 11:36 AM, memetics-digest wrote:
> >
> > > does one not also need to assume that there is some
> > > adjustment of the meme a bit to fit into the new heads' space
> >
> > Why not assume there is no meme whatsoever in there, but that the
> > 'adjustment' is being made in extrinsic space, i.e. when the cultural
> > action is being performed?
> >
> > No need to 'fit' things in, then.
> >
> > - Wade
> >
>Because if the action is observed at t1 and the observer does nothing at
>t2 yet performs the action at t3, where is it stored? Certainly not in a
>Kirlian aura surrounding the performer. and what happens when what
>is observed is verbal istruction and what is later done is the action
>described by such instruction? I haven't seen many people with
>language-to-action translators hanging around their necks; they carry
>them around in their heads.
>
That memories are stored in the brain isn't at issue here. I perfectly happy
with the memories being stored upon a neural subtrate notion and Richard
Semon (followed by Karl Lashley) has given us a perfectly good term to deal
with that. It's not memories (as traces) that I'd take issue with, but
meme-ories.
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