From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Fri 23 May 2003 - 23:59:00 GMT
> on 5/23/03 6:28 PM, Richard Brodie at richard@brodietech.com wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
>
> > A phenotype, by definition, is the machine the replicator builds
> > that works to get the replicator replicated. It is not the
> > replicator itself. So Bill's theory fits right into mainstream
> > memetics unless he maintains that minds are not involved in making
> > performances.
>
> Sure minds are involved in making performances. But the memes aren't
> in the minds. The minds, in some sense, do perceive the memes out
> there in the world. The fact that a mind perceives a meme doesn't, in
> my view, mean that the mind somehow copies or replicates the meme.
>
> Bill B
> --
Then how does it repeat an instruction after time has passed, in
adifferent location, to different people? And perhaps in a different
medium from the original, such as speaking a written instruction, or
verse-vice-a?
>
> William L. Benzon
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>
> "You won't get a wild heroic ride to heaven on pretty little
> sounds."--George Ives
>
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