Re: reply to Benzon

From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Fri 23 May 2003 - 23:59:00 GMT

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    > on 5/23/03 6:28 PM, Richard Brodie at richard@brodietech.com wrote:
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    > [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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    > Jersey City, NJ 07302
    > 201 217-1010
    >
    > "You won't get a wild heroic ride to heaven on pretty little
    > sounds."--George Ives
    >
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