From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Wed 21 May 2003 - 17:48:52 GMT
>
> On Wednesday, May 21, 2003, at 01:13 AM, Scott wrote:
>
> > Careful there when invoking the pink unicorn hypothesis
>
> I knew you'd notice.
>
> I think I was careful. I can at least point to the pink unicorn now in
> my garden, since performances are quite tangible, but, yes, I don't
> think any memeinthemind advocate can point to theirs, although, at
> least they have a garden to imagine it in. As you say "[they] are
> hijacking memory research and claiming it for memetics by merely
> embedding the term 'meme' into a discussion of memory." Yes, they can
> point to memory research, but, no further. Not _yet_, as they say,
> and, let's give them that.
>
> > One can accept that memory has a neural basis, yet be quite
> > skeptical that memes have any basis.
>
> Right on.
>
Not if memes are the replicable subclass of memory. Private
perceptions cannot be replicated, but the meanings that are assigned to
such perceptions in a common code (a language) can be and are.
>
> - Wade
>
>
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