From: Van oost Kenneth (kennethvanoost@belgacom.net)
Date: Thu 06 Mar 2003 - 17:09:48 GMT
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Chase" <ecphoric@hotmail.com>
> What I'm getting at is that there may be divergence from brain to paper
and
> vice versa just as there may be divergence between brains. I'm not sure
this
> variation could be shoehorned into a reified abstraction such as the
"meme.
Hm, interesting observation, something to look into IMO.
The first idea that comes to mind is that such a supposition can only be
drawn from a meme- meme- eye view.
Whatever reason could memes has in their ways finding more ways to
propagate, than to diverge information from brain to paper and vice
versa !? From brain to brain is just yet another mode, but what you
imply as written as above may have only meaning in the context
of maintaining the host integrity ( in the meaning of completeness...).
If information is NOT diverted, for whatever reason, that would mean
that 1- inbedded info can and may be altered, and 2- that hostile info
can and may snip thru'. In both cases the host his memes will suffer.
Is this a kind of defense- mechanism !?
Kenneth
===============================================================
This was distributed via the memetics list associated with the
Journal of Memetics - Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission
For information about the journal and the list (e.g. unsubscribing)
see: http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/jom-emit
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Thu 06 Mar 2003 - 16:50:19 GMT