From: Jerry Bryson (jbryson@infionline.net)
Date: Mon 06 Feb 2006 - 14:21:20 GMT
On Feb 6, 2006, at 3:46 AM, Derek Gatherer wrote:
>> If I want to know whether someone has a particular meme then I can
>> ask them or, less directly, observe their behaviour. Behavioural
>> observation is as you say not ideal; but if you include what they
>> write/say as part of that behaviour then things become more
>> manageable.
>
> Yes, I think that statistics like membership of political parties, can
> give us a clue to what might be happening internally. There are also
> opinion polls, but these are perhaps less reliable in terms of their
> truth value.
>
> > and maybe this means that the whole concept of frequencies in
> populations is too static as a means of studying memes, and we need to
> find something >more dynamic?
>
> Absolutely. But what would it be?
>
Half the world is using MRI lately. What would a meme look like in a
brain scan?
'Mother, may I go maffick,
Tear around and hinder traffic?
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