From: Scott Chase (ecphoric@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue 11 Mar 2003 - 02:45:07 GMT
>From: "Grant Callaghan" <grantc4@hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>Subject: Re: memetics-digest V1 #1313
>Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 15:08:20 -0800
>
>Wade,
>
>Sixty years ago my father taught me a series of moves on the chess board
>with which I could mate an opponent in three moves. He called it "fools
>mate." Now I'm teaching it to my grandson. If I haven't been carrying
>that meme around in my head for the past 60 years, how can I use it and
>teach it today? Sure, I passed it on by performing it, but I recovered the
>gambit from my mind and I think that's pretty good proof that it's been
>sitting in there waiting to be used for the past 60 years. I didn't
>recover it from a book or by watching someone else do it recently. Most of
>what I know how to do is stored in the same way, waiting to be used or
>passed to someone else. If it's not stored in the mind or the brain, where
>is it?
>
>
Well you've remembered a series of chess moves. I'd call this a memory (not
a meme-ory). Wade might point to the performance of the moves as a beme, but
I'd, in my curmudgeony agnostic way probably make funny faces at this stance
too. I see a memory (engrammatic or mnemonic storage) of chess moves (a
behavioral repertoire. With nice fancy words like memory and repertoire I'd
thing that meme-ory and beme sound a little bland, like artificial sweetener
might taste.
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