Re: memetics-digest V1 #1307

From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Sun 09 Mar 2003 - 18:24:57 GMT

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    > On Sunday, March 9, 2003, at 07:17 AM, memetics-digest wrote:
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    > > As my forgoing example amply demonstrates, you seem to entertain an
    > > exceedingly narrow view of what constitutes performance or its
    > > alteration.
    >
    > To the contrary, I view performance with a very wide lens. But at
    > least I acknowledge it- you seem to think it somehow is not necessary.
    >
    Necessary to replication, yes; essential to existence, no.
    >
    > That newspaper article you mention- is that not a performance? Of
    > course it is.
    >
    According to another email of yours, it is an agent-object.
    >
    > > A novel meme alters the gestalt in which it
    > > embeds, so that other memes, and other behaviors based upon them,
    > > are altered, even if the initial meme is not recommunicated.
    >
    > This statement is ludicrously meaningless to the performance model.
    >
    Which is one reason why the performace model is inadequate. If it were all there was, people could not even carry on a continuing discussion concerniong it.
    >
    > Herein somewhat modified to make some sense to the performance model-
    >
    > "A performance might alter the gestalt in which it occurs, and other
    > performances following it might alter the gestalt even more, or
    > reinforce the ability to continue similar performances."
    >
    Sorry, but one of the primary differences between memetics and genetics is the identity of the shaping environment. For genetics, it is the terrestrial ecological environment; for memetics it is the cognitive gestalt.
    >
    > - Wade
    >
    >
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