Re: memetics-digest V1 #1298

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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