Re: birthdays

From: Chris Taylor (Christopher.Taylor@man.ac.uk)
Date: Tue 03 Jun 2003 - 09:40:09 GMT

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    Gotta concur. There's another take on this too which revolves around how easy each of these two semi-opposing models is to evolve, through vastly many selected-for steps. Your brain isn't a machine* it's a jungle.

    [* except at the base level of sensory/motor processing and, the next-to-base level of emotional colouring].

    Chris.

    joedees@bellsouth.net wrote:
    > 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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