Re: Memes and emotions

From: Scott Chase (ecphoric@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Jan 26 2001 - 06:32:01 GMT

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From: "Scott Chase" <ecphoric@hotmail.com>
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    >From: Chris Taylor <Christopher.Taylor@man.ac.uk>
    >Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    >To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    >Subject: Re: Memes and emotions
    >Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 15:51:41 +0000
    >
    >Do you see the important transition as the refinement of imitative ability,
    >or the
    >facility to split memes into functional component parts to generate
    >recombinant (in a
    >loose sense) pseudonovel memes, or both?
    >
    >I'll go for both - it seems to me that as we go down the great chain of
    >being
    >[(angels) -> us -> bonobos/dolphins -> other 'higher' mammals ->
    >fluffy/feathered
    >stuff -> ... -> yeast etc.] recombination (of memes) disappears fairly
    >quickly, good
    >imitation more slowly, then you're left with learning from own experience
    >(oh dear),
    >and finally, hard-wired wood-burning genetically controlled stuff,
    >including
    >'metabolic' rather than neural mechanisms).
    >
    What's a "great chain of being" and in what manner can we "go down" one? Is
    there a linear procession here?

    I assume you're joking about angels, but what puts us on top of this
    hierarchical construct? Is it because we make the judgements?

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