Re: never wanting to grow up

From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Mon 26 May 2003 - 20:45:39 GMT

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    > On Monday, May 26, 2003, at 03:22 PM, Keith wrote:
    >
    > > As I have recently stated, "meme" is a slightly more restrictive
    > > word than idea. You can have an idea without communicating it, but
    > > if it is communicated, the idea (information) has replicated making
    > > it a meme (replicating information).
    >
    > Of course, this model denies any agency to the performance itself,
    > which is also effected by aleatory influences, and both are agencies
    > in cultural evolution. As a theory of idea transmission, the above
    > seems whole, but as a theory of cultural evolution, it comes up short
    > by a major era or three, and if a meme is to be the required quantum
    > of culture, then the above theory of idea propagation should not be
    > using it.
    >
    It does NOT deny agency to performance; that's how memes get proliferated. But they are nevertheless memes before, during and after their proliferation, both within minds (cognitive encoding) and between them (speaking, writing, demonstration, and other performance- encodings.).
    >
    > - Wade
    >
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