From: Wade T. Smith (wade.t.smith@verizon.net)
Date: Thu 06 Mar 2003 - 17:38:34 GMT
On Thursday, March 6, 2003, at 11:49 AM, memetics-digest wrote:
> And where it is not, which is in the time/space of the performance
> itself,
> is where the meme is.
>
> - - Wade
>
> I can't help but think the environment of the meme is the mind. That's
> where all the action takes place of cognition, use, transmission,
> reception
> and storage. Of course, all of these things are actions but they take
> place
> within the brain and the body.
If you _want_ to put a meme in a mind, (and you ain't got any proof),
then, of course its environment is the mind.
I _don't_ want to put memes in minds, because I'd like some proof that
I _have_ to, and you, nor anyone, has supplied that. So, the
environment I imagine for them is not in the mind.
Where are they?
I don't any utility to having them as some indescribable, unanalyzable,
ghostly entities within an already vaguely understood construct, as the
mind is not only intangible, but perhaps, like all things having bases
in chaos, unfathomable.
So, in step with countless artists' descriptions of their own
performance theory, and with all deference to darwinian processes which
actually involve active and moving and performing entities at all
stages, I've adopted a cultural evolution theory which only involves
what we know of human behavior, and presents a moving stage of
evolutionary impact extrinsic to the individual- culture in all its
mechanisms.
I don't see any way to enforce the memeinmind model, at all. It seems
like homeopathy to me- pseudoscience- fantasy- wishes.
- Wade
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