From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Mon 02 Jun 2003 - 20:42:04 GMT
Date sent: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 16:32:44 -0400
Subject: re: birthdays
From: "Wade T. Smith" <wade.t.smith@verizon.net>
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
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>
> On Monday, June 2, 2003, at 04:00 PM, Kenneth wrote:
>
> > So, in a sense there is "nothing" in my head as being 'memes' as
> > such, all is induced by a certain venue which within its own
> > parameters creates performances to be performed and creates
> > performances to be expected.
>
> Kenneth has got it. The 'memes in the head' that everyone else wants
> to put there, are only the normal, gradually evolved processes of the
> cognitive brain of homo sapiens, and nothing else. The processes that
> have led to language and to oral history and to written history and
> architecture and economics and all the things that make up the
> cultural venue are part of this gradually evolved procession.
>
But our *knowledges of* language and oral history and written history
and so on, insofar as these knowings are communicable, are internally
stored memes and memeplexes. They comprise the cognitive gestalt
rather than the cultural venue, and, in each individual case, are
psychological rather than sociological.
> - Wade
>
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