From: Philip Jonkers (philosophimur@dygo.com)
Date: Fri 16 May 2003 - 16:31:18 GMT
--- Douglas Brooker <dbrooker@clara.co.uk> wrote:
>> Wade:
>> >> But- in the case of the performance model, memes are not only
>> >> evidential and non-abstract, but absolute and defined with certain
>
>> >> rigidity. They are not assumptions about the way a mind, or minds,
>
>> >> work, but a working theory about the process of cultural evolution,
>at
>> >> the level of quantum units.
>>
>> Douglas:
>> >the reference to quantum suggests the idea that a meme may be one
>thing under
>> >certain conditions and another thing under different conditions.
>>
>> You don't want to carry the analogy with quantum physics too far!
>>
>
>I'm not sure whether the whole exercise isn't a grand analogy or
>metaphor.
Either way I don't see the purpose of invoking the great Quantum Spirit
In The Sky to describe cultural elements, even if they are small and
intangible. Please enlighten me if you feel otherwise...
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