Re: performance

From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Thu 22 May 2003 - 02:08:56 GMT

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    > on 5/20/03 11:20 AM, Reed Konsler at rkonsler@hotmail.com wrote:
    >
    > [snip]
    >
    > >
    > > Actually, I still think there is only one kind: the mind-meme.
    > > Like I said before, I think performances are expressions, like
    > > phenotypes. But, I'm still entertaining the idea (becuase I find it
    > > interesting) that there could be (even exclusively be)
    > > performance-memes.
    >
    > In my view, performances are cultural phenotypes. That's what I said
    > in that long pile of music notes I posted.
    >
    > Note that, by performance, I mean not only the publicly observable
    > sights or sounds, or touches, or odors, whatever, but also the neural
    > and motor activity in those who make and apprehend the performance.
    > All of that is a single phenotype. Each individual performance is a
    > different phenotype. These phenotypes are thus very strange entities,
    > spread over a number of individuals, etc.
    >
    > The memes are publicly perceptible aspects of the performance.
    > Depending on the nature of the performance, the redness of an apple
    > may be a meme, or the phase of waveform, etc.
    >
    > For more detail, consult that pile of musical notes: music, memes, and
    > performance.
    >
    By invoking neural and motor activity, you attempt to abolish the internal by relabeling it the external, but isn't this the very selfsame internal that you claimed no one had knowledge of? It's the solipsistic error in reverse. But then again, consistency is the hobgoblin of logical minds.
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