Re: Now They're Singing a Different Song

From: Aaron Agassi (agassi@erols.com)
Date: Fri Jan 19 2001 - 13:21:45 GMT

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Subject: Re: Now They're Singing a Different Song
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 08:21:45 -0500
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    From: "Robin Faichney" <robin@reborntechnology.co.uk>
    To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
    Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 7:40 AM
    Subject: Re: Now They're Singing a Different Song

    > On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 06:45:32AM -0500, Aaron Agassi wrote:
    > >
    > > > On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 11:25:39PM -0500, Aaron Agassi wrote:
    > > > > Yes, but does this help to explain any Memetic equivalent?
    > > >
    > > > The question begged by it, to my mind, is whether speciation can be
    > > > meme-driven. On the face of it, it would seem so.
    > >
    > > Only if bird songs are regarded as Memetic rather than Neurological,
    > > genetic, Physical information in Nature.
    > >
    > > But this problem does not arise, if Nature, all, is acknowledged as
    Memetic,
    > > and Empirical experience as Memetic replication or template from
    reality.
    > > That not only are memes replicated, Memetically, but physical
    information
    > > transmits into Memetics, much as RNA and DNA interchange. But with
    greater
    > > mutation and loss.
    > >
    > > In other words, to remember that Memetics is only a branch of Mimetics.
    > > Cultural replication is only a special case of replication in general.
    Not
    > > dichotomous at all.
    >
    > Diesel is only a special case of vehicle fuel in general. But I'm
    > careful not to put it in my petrol tank, even so. Sometimes distinctions
    > are useful.
    >
    Special cases are a different distinction than category.

    > --
    > Robin Faichney
    > robin@reborntechnology.co.uk
    >
    >

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