From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Tue 27 May 2003 - 20:42:49 GMT
>
> On Tuesday, May 27, 2003, at 03:47 PM, Joe wrote:
>
> > 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.)
>
> I always seek conciliation, and here is an opening.
>
> I like that phrase, "they are memes before, during, and after". This
> is more definitional than procedural, and the performance model is
> pretty strictly a procedural model willing to wander around with a few
> definitions, so here's its adaptation of this phrase.
>
> Meme t1- ideation/cognitive gestalt (performer)
> Meme t2- performance/cognitive gestalt/venue
> Meme t3- observation/cognitive gestalt
>
> NB that the ideation during t1 (in the cognitive gestalt of the
> performer) is not necessarily mirrored or replicated through the
> observation (by the cognitive gestalt of the observer) in t3, and only
> t2 can supply cultural meaning (by establishing the parameters of
> performance).
>
> This is the performance model of cultural evolution, and, locating
> memetic agencies by temporal and agent location
>
Memes may be sent, received, rejected, accepted, modified or stored.
In all these cases, they're still memes, just in different processes and/or
states and/or locations relative to the cognizer, and carried in various
media via sundry encoding modalities.
>
> - Wade
>
>
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