From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Sun 18 May 2003 - 20:32:04 GMT
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> > Mind is active and alterational. Mutation and selection happen in
> > there. It's where hooks and filters reside. Replication occurs
> > between, by means of performance (including showing, telling,
> > writing, etc.), but selection and mutation happens predominately
> > within, in the accommodation to and assimilation with differing
> > cognitive gestalts, and all of these are necessary for the evolution
> > of memes to occur. The mind is much more than a conduit; behaviorism
> > fell precisely because its doctrine demanded that it dogmatically
> > and erroneously assume that a passive conduit between stimulus and
> > response is all that the mind was.
>
> Yes, but on the other hand that is what science can come up with and
> that is what we all agreed to. That is black and white, with no grey
> spots possible. Still there is that tiny bit of doubt that within the
> specific nature of memes, those last created a selection environment
> for themselves in order to pro- pagate, evolve and survive. The mind,
> or what we call it is, can be just part of a parameter needed from
> within certain performances occur and where, for making the condi-
> tions more probably, resides memory, hooks and filters. It is maybe
> needed for memes to occur, but it can be that no meme resides as such.
>
> We have no indication that it is like this, I agree, but like I argued
> as above, culture needs its performances, science holding on to its
> own commands and parameters is one, saying in an odd way, that maybe
> science is wrong, and I have no proof whatsoever, is another. We still
> need the dichotomy....
>
> Regards,
>
> Kenneth
>
If meme templates exist, they must reside somewhere between our
performances of tokens of them (logical entailment). And I don't think
it's in the cuticles of our big toes.
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