From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Thu 22 May 2003 - 17:27:46 GMT
> > Reed wrote:
> >
> > <<Quibble quibble: if you can infer the existence of someone's
> > rule, then there must be some kind of physical expression of it.
> > Hence, it is not silent. That is why they call it a "tell".>>
> >
> > Keith said a rule you never let anyone know about was not a meme. I
> > remarked it could be a meme even if you didn't let anyone know about
> > it because they might be able to infer it from observing your
> > behavior. To me, the two are not the same.
> >
> > I take the position that any thought, belief, attitude, opinion, or
> > learning I have may potentially affect my behavior in the future,
> > and that affect on my behavior might, however slightly, increase the
> > probability of that piece of mental information being replicated in
> > another mind, Therefore, any mental information is a potential meme.
> >
> An interesting point here is that, although the card-player's
> tell-signals are subliminal to and not even desired by him (because,
> after all, he does not WANT to advertise his hand and lose money to a
> tell-reader), they could not be made at all if he did not see and read
> his own hand. Thus, knowing THAT one is communicating (that one is
> performing the tells) is NOT necessary for communication to occur, but
> knowing WHAT one is communicating *(the content of one's own hand)* IS
> (that nasty mind-meme again!). >
> > Richard Brodie > www.memecentral.com > > >
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