From: Van oost Kenneth (kennethvanoost@belgacom.net)
Date: Thu 15 May 2003 - 18:55:47 GMT
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From: "Wade T. Smith" <wade.t.smith@verizon.net>
> On the other hand, if the performance model is to be utilized, then all
> these agents and processes are not tools of some weird, replicating
> mental entity, but, tools of the culture of a society of humans
> (perchance animals, I haven't accepted the arguments for memetic
> activity in non-humans as of yet, but I'm listening), and cultural
> evolution, as a process, is the result of performances (with performer
> and audience, without which no evolution is possible, as human genetic
> evolution is not possible without sex), which, as quantum units of such
> evolution, the performance model calls a meme, because, at its root
> definition, a meme is the quantum unit (the smallest quantity of some
> property that a system can possess) of cultural evolution.
Still I have observations to make,
But how ' little ' or how ' big ' is than the meme itself in the
performance-
model !? How small or how big is the smallest quantity to define it as the
meme !? One word, one sentence, one book, an episode of Bonanza,...?
I see more ' contents '. IMO a meme to its full abstract extremes must have
more greater matter, must amount to much more. A meme is the full infor-
mative abstraction, for that and one specific moment in the space/ time of
any or one's first performance and the cumultative follow- ups.
We ' pick ' out what represents what is close to our extistent cognitive
gestalt.
But personally I go for the term ' recognition '....
Regards,
Kenneth
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