From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Mon 03 Mar 2003 - 04:30:53 GMT
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> >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
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> > > On Sunday, March 2, 2003, at 11:36 AM, memetics-digest wrote:
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> > > > does one not also need to assume that there is some
> > > > adjustment of the meme a bit to fit into the new heads' space
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> > > 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?
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> > > No need to 'fit' things in, then.
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> > > - Wade
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> >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.
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> 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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Meme-ories are the subclass of memories that are communicated
between minds (although for the recipient, they are not memories so
much as learned knowledge).
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