From: Scott Chase (osteopilus@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun 10 Apr 2005 - 00:02:17 GMT
--- Bill Spight <bspight@pacbell.net> wrote:
> Dear Kenneth,
>
> > But what if the individual ( personal) memeset is
> working totally on its
> > own, with no outside connection or attachment !?
> > What then !?
>
> Then we do not have memes, because memes are
> cultural.
>
But after the part youu responded to Ketth said:
>
> What if collectiviness is just a result of how
> individual stances were
> arranged and organized !?
> Darwinian processes of selection and evolution would
> be involved,
> but were to be NOT the motor behind the scheme !?
>
Someone could argue that given our limited cognitive
resources ideas could compete for space *within* our
noggins. I know the shelf space I have is limited and
limits how my books will be displayed for my perusal.
The time I have to read is limited too. Based on what
books I see that catch my eye, I'll need to budget my
time accordingly. My processing capacities are limited
and memory sux so this will play a role in what ideas
in that limited subset of books stick with me over
time. Yet external factors influenced the writing,
publication and marketing of these books. The
bookstore I bought them from might not have them in
stock, so my ability to search amazon and other
databases plays a role in what I might buy. Some books
go out of print so interlibrary loan could be a factor
in the cases where they are not available for sale and
hard to find, so I can check them out and read them
for the limited time of the checkout period allowed by
a library system with formulated policies in that
regard. Speed reading ain't my strong suit.
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