From: Richard Brodie (richard@brodietech.com)
Date: Mon 16 Jun 2003 - 02:10:38 GMT
Richard said:
> How about a child whose mother is a strict disciplinarian? The
> child blames
> the strictness for her woes and makes a decision to be lenient
> with her own
> child, who comes to the opposite conclusion and once again adopts the
> strictness meme. Where is that generation-skipping meme encoded?
Lawry wrote:
<<I would treat this as more a matter of simple learning and reaction,
rather
than a meme at work. The grandchild might as easily adopt yet a third
pattern of behavior; there is no intrinsic reason for the grandchild to
adopt the grandmother's pattern (other than that the model you offer has
only two behavioral choices). What do you think?>>
There are an infinity of possibilities for meme transmission. Simple
learning and reaction is one.
Richard Brodie
www.memecentral.com
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