From: Chris Taylor (christ@ebi.ac.uk)
Date: Wed 13 Apr 2005 - 15:58:47 GMT
This is just wrong, surely? The example you give is, if anything,
evidence that the child has taken past experience (~meme) of purposively
dropping things (this is equivalent to an artefact causing the
reconstitution of a meme as recently discussed), almost uniformly while
standing still, and reused that ~meme in a new context without
decomposing it _at all_.
Bill Spight wrote:
> Dear Scott,
>
>> Yet what about the so-called "benign user illusion" or
>> the notion that "self" is but a memeplex?
>
>
> The meme only view has been plainly refuted by a simple experiment. If
> you ask a young child who is naive about such things to take a small
> stone in hand, run by a box, and drop the stone into the box, the first
> time around the child will let go of the stone when it is directly over
> the box. The child plainly believes that the stone will drop straight
> down, ignorant of the inertial effect of running. This belief is not
> memetic. Not only has it not been transmitted to the child, it differs
> from the cultural meme which is taught in school.
>
> Best,
>
> Bill
>
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