Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id LAA24822 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Thu, 1 Feb 2001 11:47:08 GMT Message-ID: <2D1C159B783DD211808A006008062D3101745C25@inchna.stir.ac.uk> From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk> To: "'memetics@mmu.ac.uk'" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Subject: RE: Labels for memes Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 11:45:53 -0000 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
<Sorry Vincent, but while I sympathise that we might be ignoring
your
> expertise, I don't see that anything you say here impacts the main
> issue: the informational nature of the meme and its transmission.
> If we can agree on that, then we can address the complexities of mass
> communications.>
>
Perhaps, I guess it's a question of where one's emphasis lies in
relation to the memetic process. If it's internal then indeed outward
communications processes may matter little or not at all. I think my point
here was that in certain kinds of communication it surely must do, but we
agree to disagree on that one.
>> Well, views on this one have been fully expressed before.
IMHO
>> 'God' is a meme, belief in him/her/it is not.
<I don't know. I think that could be considered communicable
behaviour.>
But is it imitation or something else, like social learning? Do
children copy the beliefs of their parents, or are they taught them? When a
child prays before going to bed at night do they pray to the same God as
their parents? Can they have the same kind of belief as the parents?
Vincent
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