Re: ....and the beat goes on and on and on...

From: Aaron Agassi (agassi@erols.com)
Date: Wed Jan 24 2001 - 13:26:05 GMT

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Subject: Re: ....and the beat goes on and on and on...
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 08:26:05 -0500
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    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Vincent Campbell" <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk>
    To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
    Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 6:30 AM
    Subject: RE: ....and the beat goes on and on and on...

    <snip>
    >
    > Moreover, you bring your ideas to a memetics listserv, and I believe
    > you've mentioned memes about 3 or 4 times in the hundreds of posts you
    > submitted. Unless you intend to engage with explicit issues in memetics
    > (i.e. issues in cultural evolution) which I doubt since you're
    > monomaniacally obsessed with people's BEHINDS (and pointless
    > capitalization), I don't see any reason to engage any further at this
    point
    > in time.
    >
    <snip>

    This raises a good point:
    Where, if at all, can memes obtain, in Chris Lofting's NeuroStructural
    recursions, where in there is nothing new under the sun -heck, no sun, save
    in the mind... and there for, intersubjectivity, like any other relationship
    to the world, is dismissed as "resonance", self reinforcing bias?

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