From: Grant Callaghan (grantc4@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed 19 Mar 2003 - 04:22:31 GMT
>representations - intentional gestures, words, numbers, and constructed
>objects that elicit meaning in the process of communication, but which
>themselves have no meaning
>
>thought - a process by which Neuroactivity constructs meaning, modifies
>intentional structure, and makes representations for purposes of
>communication among humans and animals
>
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>
>It would seem that what Wade calls memes Freeman calls "representations."
>What I call memes are what Freeman calls thought. I would suspect that
>Freeman has little or nothing to say on the subject of memes. But at least
>what we are giving names to is common to the lexicons of all of us.
>
>Grant
Except that Freeman would find nonsensical the notion that thoughts (that is
"memes" in your terms) can somehow propagate from one person to another.
Freeman is quite clear in asserting that meaning is constructed in brains
and that each brain does so in a way that is unique to it. For each brain
has a unique history and its meanings reflect the whole of that history.
Meanings do not propagate from one brain to another in the way you want
memes to.
Well, he does say:
>thought - aprocess by which Neuroactivity constructs meaning, modifies
>intentional structure, and makes representations for purposes of
>communication among humans and animals
>
Isn't that a way of propagating meanings from one brain to another?
Grant
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