Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id MAA19418 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Thu, 24 Aug 2000 12:24:53 +0100 Message-ID: <2D1C159B783DD211808A006008062D31017459BB@inchna.stir.ac.uk> From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk> To: "'memetics@mmu.ac.uk'" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Subject: RE: handedness and memes Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 12:22:28 +0100 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
ah well there we go then- not just my mum ebing constrained by the
memeplexes of society!
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> From: Kenneth Van Oost
> Reply To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 11:13 am
> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: handedness and memes
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mark M. Mills <mmills@htcomp.net>
>
> > Anyone else find handedness an interesting aspect of memetics?
>
> << Interesting !! I never thought about that aspect, though !!
>
> Are left and right handed versions members of a single mems population ?
> Different memes ?
>
> Rambling around here,
>
> IMHO I think different memes ! But the result will be the same.
> The difference lies in the different neural pathways we use to obtain any
> result.
> Idit Blackmore, the act is replicated, not the instructions the brain held
> for
> making that act.
> By the way, left and right handedness, has that not something to do with
> the two hemispheres of our brain, I mean left-handedness is controlled by
> the right part of the brain !?
>
> Two variations produce the same social response...!?
> I have doubts about that, though !!
> Meaning...most people are right- handed, left- handedness was seen as a
> bad omen. In that case the left- handed individual was not permitted to
> have a " social response " at all !
> So, handedness is in some sense influenced by what is cultural excepted...
>
> For that matter, I am left- handed, but...in primary school it was shown,
> quit violently to me, that left- handed writing was inappropriate.
> So, against my genetic/ memetic pathways I was learned to write with my
> right hand. IMHO, " knots are tied with the same ' handedness ' as their
> constructor 's handedness " is not quit right, due to the fact of the
> above
> mentioned notion.
> And what about people who can knot with both their hands...a same meme
> would give difficulties I suppose...one single idea for two different
> actions,
> two outcomes which are the same...how would the brain know which hand
> to use, left or right !? What would be the reason for the brain using then
> the
> left- handedness and then right- handedness in order to knot...
> Yes indeed, quit a puzzle...!!
>
> Regards,
>
> Kenneth
>
> ( I am, because we are)
>
>
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