From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Sun 09 Mar 2003 - 23:57:21 GMT
>
> On Sunday, March 9, 2003, at 03:17 PM, memetics-digest wrote:
>
> > Performance is the television; the meme is the program.
>
> The _program_ is the performance- TV is the _medium_.
>
Turn the TV off so that it does not perform its communicative function
and tell me what you see. The program is the semantic content, as its
meaning/significance is both existent and contingent upon the
intentions of its creators (as well as upon the cognitive gestalts of the
viewers).
>
> Nomenclature, indeed.
>
> > the meme itself is the encoded semantic
> > content which is thus transmitted, and the performance is just a
> > medium by which transmission occurs.
>
> Interesting hypothesis.
>
> Explain 'semantic content' as a function of behavior.
>
Meaningful intentional behavior.
>
> Explain 'transmission' as the sole function of performance.
>
There are other reasons to act (food, sex, shelter, etc.), but to perform
implies an actor and an audience, thus the function of performance is
communication between them.
>
> And then, please, your explanation of 'performance' somehow being
> 'just a medium'.
>
It is the method by means of which semantic content, or meaning, is
communicated, if writing and speaking and demonstrating are all
considered as performances. I have a hard time considering the
solitary construction of verbiage spatiotemporally separated from
anonymous possible readers to be a performance, except in the loosest
sense.
>
> I'm not sounding like Dace- you're sounding like the soul's apologist,
> and refusing to see the implications of performance and basic human
> behavior within spatiotemporal bounds of culture (to more use your
> terms).
>
No, soul implies baggage, such as material-substrate-independence
and immortality, which I expressly reject. However, a dynamically
recursive self-conscious awareness, complete with ideation, intention,
will and efficacy, is necessary for specific meanings to be intentionally
shared.
>
> - Wade
>
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