From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Sat 17 May 2003 - 22:18:09 GMT
>
> On Friday, May 16, 2003, at 09:05 PM, Chris wrote:
>
> > You mean that there is something in my brain, and your brain, that
> > is the same if we both saw the same thing?
>
> This is the core stratagem of the memeinthemind model, and-
>
> > Cos apart from on the most base
> > level of perception I'd have to part company with you.
>
> - it is precisely why I parted company from them, if indeed I ever did
> anything but have a few drinks at their parties.
>
> - Wade
>
Actually, this precise equivalence is a straw man; the selfsame meme
would be encoded somewhat differently (although similarly, since the
cognitive environment is in each case a human one) in different human
brains, due to the requirement for it to accommodate to similar yet far
from identical cognitive gestalts (the memes already there when it
arrives).
Peter can never be Paul, and neither can their brains contain contain
the same memories and have elaborated through identical histories, so
there is no requirement for Peter's neural encoding of meme X to be
identical to Paul's encoding of meme X.
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