From: Paul (paul@dna.ie)
Date: Tue 15 Mar 2005 - 21:21:29 GMT
Kate, you clearly answered my question. From my understanding of
Aungers work is that he sees a variety of media as artefacts. These
artefacts are memetic phenotypes. The difference with Blackmore is a
matter of viewing the same thing from a different angle. A lot of
Blackmore meme examples that are questioned actually describe a memes
phenotypic effect as the meme itself.
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From: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk [mailto:fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk] On Behalf
Of Kate Distin
Sent: 14 March 2005 11:11
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Subject: Re: New Memes Book
>I've had a look at your books description on amazon; how does your
>thoughts regarding memes compare with Aungers i.e., how does your book
>compare with his book "the electric meme".
>
>
I agree with Aunger that there's a distinction between memes and the
mind. I don't know enough about neuroscience to comment on his analysis
of brain-based memes. I think he goes too far in his objections to the
possibility of replicators being realized in a variety of different
media: clearly the choice of medium is significant for memes, but I n
don't agree that it's *so* significant that replication across media is
impossible.
My own background is essentially in Philosophy, and I'm sure that this
has nudged my memetic explorations in a particular direction. I suppose
that the biggest similarity between Aunger's book and mine is that both
focus on the structure of memes and memetics, rather than on the
potential applications of memetics to particular cultural areas.
Not sure if this answers your question - let me know!
Kate
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