Re: urge to strangle

From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Fri 23 May 2003 - 18:59:55 GMT

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    > On Thursday, May 22, 2003, at 04:53 PM, Joe wrote:
    >
    > > Exactly nothing unless both internal and external conditions are
    > > both met; so much for performance-only.
    >
    > Again, the performance model _demands_ externa and internal conditions
    > to be not only met, but necessarily and sufficiently present.
    >
    > At this point, I have no clue what in hell's name you think the
    > performance model is. Which is why I asked you, in your own words, to
    > elucidate it. Please.
    >
    You have also called it the 'performance-only' model, and denigrated the 'memeinthemind' model in favor of it. This would indicate, notwithstanding your statement above, a denial of the internal, including the cognitive storage, mutation, and selection, of memes. My position is that both the internal and the external are necessary; the internal for storage, mutation and selection, and the external for replication. Remember that it does not matter what happens between if the within possesses no understanding; if I am feral, and do not possess knowledge of written or spoken language, it does not matter what you say to me or which book you hand me; thus both external written storage and between-people verbal communication depend upon learned and internally stored templates. Neither the internal nor the external, neither the cognitive/perceived/interpreted nor the performative/willed, is sificient; both are necessary for memetic transmission, replication and evolution to proceed.
    >
    > - Wade
    >
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