From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Mon 23 Jun 2003 - 19:35:51 GMT
From: "Van oost Kenneth"
<kennethvanoost@belgacom.net>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Precision of replication
Date sent: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 14:47:00 +0200
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> From: <joedees@bellsouth.net>
> > What matters is whether you are prompted to replicate/proliferate
> > the meme in turn. As I said before, identical is an unattainable
> > absolute, cognitive-gestalt speaking. But, although the concept of
> > being saved by a belief in the divinity of Jesus is a bit different
> > for each believer,
> the
> > idea of attempting to save others via communicating the concept to
> > others has historically, albeit, to my mind, regrettably,
> > considering all the unfortunate (and itself variable between both
> > individual and groups of believers - see denominations and heresies)
> > baggage it has carried in its train, shown remarkable durability
> > across individual variations, and the very idea of heresies is
> > itself a normalizing hook attempting to enforce, with mixed success,
> > uniformity across divergent historical epochs, populations and
> > understandings.
>
> Replication/ prolification are induced by the venue in which you live,
> can be a result of the emotional state you were in, what kind of
> people you meet, what kind of people you talked to, etc...but all
> those examples are part of some venue which acts as agents, it reacts
> and evolves along the way, it influences. And all of the unfortunate
> replications are too part of a venue, prompted or not, being part of
> the atheist- side of the coin I am prompted any- way to disgard
> salvation, what matters wether the meme/ information can convince me
> or you to change sides....
>
When one is forced to expand the concept of venue to include the not-
yet-but-soon-to-be communicated memes in the memeplexures or
cognitive gestalts of one's interlocuters, the concept of venue itself has
lost all currency and value.
>
> Regards,
>
> Kenneth
>
>
>
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