Re: memetics-digest V1 #1304

From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Thu 06 Mar 2003 - 17:42:02 GMT

  • Next message: Wade T. Smith: "Re: memetics-digest V1 #1304"

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    > On Thursday, March 6, 2003, at 11:49 AM, memetics-digest wrote:
    >
    > > Let's say I *don't* buy the house. My impression is
    > > that you would say this lack of action has no meaning at all.
    >
    > I would say I would not have had, nor could I have deducted, any idea
    > that you were thinking of buying a house at all, unless you tell me
    > (perform) that you were.
    >
    That's right - it's internal to the cogitator.
    >
    > Thus your not buying the house indeed has no meaning, to the
    > time/space of social performance, whatsoever, as it was not a player
    > on that field, thus it has no meaning to culture, thus it has no
    > meaning to memetics, which is the discovery of darwinian processes in
    > cultural transmission.
    >
    It certainly has meaning to the person considering it.
    >
    > What is not performed is not created in cultural time/space, and
    > cannot be a player in the memetic field. Even the substitute players
    > are presented upon the bench for all to see, as sitting on a bench
    > being ready to play is also a performance in the time/space, but, not
    > even being there is not. In this case of yours, and in the case of
    > Joe's singing, there was not even a potential player evident upon a
    > bench.
    >
    Until the game of life is over, one cannot say what influence a thought may have down the road.
    >
    > - Wade
    >
    >
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