From: Wade T. Smith (wade.t.smith@verizon.net)
Date: Thu 06 Mar 2003 - 17:43:53 GMT
On Thursday, March 6, 2003, at 11:49 AM, memetics-digest wrote:
> Perceptual categorization is thus an inherent part of visual
> processing, and it is difficult to even talk about object recognition
> without reference to categorization.
What the memeinthemind proponents discuss as 'memes' may, perhaps, (I
certainly think so), merely be this categorization, which is not unique
to any brain with [visual] sensory apparatus. Thus, manufacturing a
special case of categorization called a 'meme' in a brain is specious,
if not wholly unnecessary, unless you want to simply call _all_ mental
categorizations 'memes' and be done with that. That would allow
birdsong to be called memetic, that's for sure.
- Wade
===============================================================
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 - 17:40:57 GMT