Re: memetics-digest V1 #1307

From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Sun 09 Mar 2003 - 18:32:35 GMT

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    > On Sunday, March 9, 2003, at 07:17 AM, memetics-digest wrote:
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    > > It can only be observed if it is performed, true,
    >
    > No, I'm not out, I'm filling up the bases and you keep walking them in
    > after every pitch even while you re-examine the slo-mo.
    >
    > It can only be culturally re-performed if it is observed, as you say.
    > Memetics thus requires performance. Since the performance itself
    > requires other agents and environments than just one individual's
    > thoughts, what occurs during performance is the meme.
    >
    It can only be re-performed if it is internally stored between the first and second performances, and since replication may begin with a single individual and an audience, the communication of that which is internally stored from transmitter to receiver is the replication of the meme - which means that the meme itself is the encoded semantic content which is thus transmitted, and the performance is just a medium by which transmission occurs. Performance is the television; the meme is the program.
    >
    > QED, thrice.
    >
    Un-Qed. And re-Qued to you.
    >
    > - Wade
    >
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