Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id SAA13655 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Mon, 29 Jan 2001 18:37:42 GMT Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 14:20:28 +0000 To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: Labels for memes Message-ID: <20010129142028.B2501@reborntechnology.co.uk> References: <20010128094520.B566@reborntechnology.co.uk> <JJEIIFOCALCJKOFDFAHBAEFICDAA.richard@brodietech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.12i In-Reply-To: <JJEIIFOCALCJKOFDFAHBAEFICDAA.richard@brodietech.com>; from richard@brodietech.com on Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 10:40:21AM -0800 From: Robin Faichney <robin@reborntechnology.co.uk> Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 10:40:21AM -0800, Richard Brodie wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 11:53:16PM -0800, Richard Brodie wrote:
> > > memes in the head (sometimes called L-memes
> > If, as it appears, the word "meme" must be muddied to include replicators
> > other than mental information, and distinctions must be drawn (as they
> > should be) among different kinds of cultural replicators, perhaps "D-meme"
> > would be a better label for mental replicators, since Dawkins first
> > published that definition for meme in The Extended Phenotype and Dennett
> > elaborated on it beautifully in Darwin's Dangerous Idea.
>
> Hi Richard. I think I told you before, but you may have forgotten,
> in Consciousness Explained Dennett says explicitly that one phase of
> the meme's existence is external to the mind/brain, in behaviour.
> Of course, Dawkins was amiguous about this in The Selfish Gene, as
> well. I'd say these waters _are_ muddy, already!
>
> Yes, they both clarified their earlier thoughts in later works. Remember
> this is solely an issue of the definition of one word, not an argument over
> the memetics model. In any case, it seems fitting to name things after the
> people who invented them.
I don't have time to reread Darwin's Dangerous Idea just now, so would
you mind citing where Dennett retracts his earlier view that one phase
of the meme's existence is behavioural?
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