Re: (Reply to Benzon)

From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Mon 26 May 2003 - 20:16:43 GMT

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    > On Monday, May 26, 2003, at 03:22 PM, Joe wrote:
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    > > And the system doing the interpreting is the cognitive gestalt,
    >
    > Granted.
    >
    > > and it interprets by recourse to the memes and noncommunicable
    > > experiences it has assimilated..
    >
    > Sez you.
    >
    On the basis of what else could it possibly interpret? For an external venue to have any impact, it has to be internally interpreted. Remember that the existential and the hermeneutic are phenomenologically co-primordial, and that the most basic datum of existence, that of presence-to-perception, is also an interpretation.
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    > There is no scientific or verified reason or proof to declare that the
    > cognitive gestalt needs to be beset by memes.
    >
    The cognitive gestalt is comprised of knowledge, memories and ideas that have been absorbed and evolved over the course of a lifetime: the communicable subset of this cognitive set comprises the memeplexure of the individual (memeplexure - the totality of memes and memeplexes within a particular cognitive gestalt). It is illogical and inconsistent to on the one hand, affirm the presence of this set within the mind and, on the other hand, to deny the cognitive presence of a necessary subset (the subset of communicable knowledge, memories and ideas) of that set.
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    > - Wade
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