From: Kenneth Van Oost (kennethvanoost@belgacom.net)
Date: Fri 08 Apr 2005 - 18:13:36 GMT
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From: Scott Chase <osteopilus@yahoo.com>
You wrote,
One problem would be how we could ascribe a meme
per individual. He also reflects on variations of an internal
meme and takes it to its absurd conclusion, which points
to a mapping problem. I wonder why we couldn't ascribe
more than one copy of the *same* meme to each individual.
<< So, is then in that respect not the ' learning' itself ( in the sense
of ' performing ' something not the ' meme ' !?
Than the problem of ascribing the meme per individual would be
solved _ he/ she is learning, but how and where is then the ' contextual '
frame where this specific memeset is due !?
How 's that for an answer !?
Then how do we do quantification? If I'm trying to learn
> Gatherer's definition of the external meme, what
> happens each time I read his article in a different
> setting or say after I've previously read Benzon's
> article that Gatherer cites?
There is none ! If learning or reading would be the ' meme ',
there would be no difference, it would be * same * meme
per individual, only the concept/ context/ environment would
be different, but that would then be another ' memepool '....
Regards,
Kenneth
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