Re: legend of Greyfriar's Bobby EP Meta

From: Chris Taylor (chris.taylor@ebi.ac.uk)
Date: Thu 02 Feb 2006 - 10:05:50 GMT

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    ~Meme is my fault (I think...).

    I needed a name for something that is structured like a meme in that it consists of the kind of informational strutures that a meme has when in your head, but that doesn't have to meet this requirement of behaving like some sort of contagion. For example, ideas that I have based on bits of other ideas are
    ~memes, but not memes, until I let them out of my head.

    This is fundamental to the meme mind thing I push on a regular basis. ~Meme is just something I try to throw into my horribly bloated consciousness streams occasionally to flag that I don 't quite mean what everyone else means by meme.

    And I'd argue that its memes all the way down too; the interface between prefrontal desires and premotor programs is easier if both are informational patterns. But I won't go on about it :)

    Cheers, Chris.

    Kate Distin wrote:
    > Jerry Bryson wrote:
    >
    >> On Jan 28, 2006, at 2:22 PM, Scott Chase wrote:
    >>
    >>> Others might think more in terms of human psychological plasticity
    >>> than you do, since memetics is naturally cultural in nature and might
    >>> attract people wanting something different than the evolved innate
    >>> pattern or modular mind approach of classic ethology and sociobiology
    >>> through EP.
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >> Somewhere along the way, I've missed what EP is.
    >>
    >> Jerry
    >
    >
    > It's Evolutionary Psychology. While we're 'fessing up, could someone
    > please tell me what a "~meme" (as opposed to a tilde-less meme)is?
    >
    > Thank you!
    >
    > Kate
    >
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