Re: memetics-digest V1 #1294

From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Sat 08 Mar 2003 - 21:19:54 GMT

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    > From: <joedees@bellsouth.net>
    > > > From: "Alan Patrick" <a.patrick@btinternet.com>
    > > > > > If a meme is pure information, then it's transfer from one
    > > > > > medium to another should adhere to the classical model of
    > > > > > communications as described by Claude Shannon. A low
    > > > > > signal-to-noise ratio could be responsible for the differences
    > > > > > between the original incarnation of a
    > > > meme
    > > > > > and the resulting neural representation of it in your head.
    > SNIP
    > > >
    > > > Why should the meme need adjustments to fit in one's head !?
    > > > I do think this process works the other way round, that is the
    > > > already existing memes will be influenced by the newbie.
    > > >
    > > > What can be, is that pieces of the initial info- spam of with the
    > > > ' meme ' is part is cut out ( by a slice and divide mechanism) so
    > > > that it would fit better the requirements needed to be picked up.
    > > > In genetics such an enzyme exists.
    > > >
    > > Actually, I see mutual accommodation occurring.
    >
    > How is that, Joe !?
    >
    The meme accommodates to the cognitive environmental niche afforded it as the cognitive gestalt is affected by and accommodates to the new component meme. Each time a new meme is accepted into the cognitive gestalt, a new gestalt is formed, and the status of each componenet is subtly altered due to the effects of the new component, as the new component is itself affected by its assimilation into a different cognitive gestalt.
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