From: Richard Brodie (richard@brodietech.com)
Date: Thu 04 May 2006 - 14:26:48 GMT
Kate wrote:
<< When we watch games and infer the rules by reflecting on what we're
seeing, I don't think that the baseball meme *is* being imparted. Rather
than being replicated, we're re-inventing it for ourselves, the basis of
knowledge that we bring to the situation.>>
If such reinventing is predictable then it is indeed (a very common form of)
meme replication.
<<Again - I think that the tune itself can come across either way, but the
information underlying it (was that note a B flat or an A sharp? Is the
music written in 3/4 time or 6/8 time? etc.) does not come across unless you
have the music in front of you. You can reconstruct it for yourself by
listening, but that isn't the same thing as replication.>>
Sure it is. In fact, memes evolve to more stable forms precisely because of
people's ability to reinvent information and fill in gaps.
Richard Brodie
www.memecentral.com
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