Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id MAA25150 (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 12:17:29 GMT Message-ID: <2D1C159B783DD211808A006008062D3101745C29@inchna.stir.ac.uk> From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk> To: "'memetics@mmu.ac.uk'" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Subject: RE: Memes and emotions Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 12:16:27 -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
"psychozoans"?
Sounds like a particularly nasty alien species that captain picard would
have to very politely, and in his best RADA english, blow out of the sky.
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> From: Scott Chase
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> >From: Ray Recchia <rrecchia@mail.clarityconnect.com>
> >Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> >To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> >Subject: Re: Memes and emotions
> >Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0500
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> >When I was a child I was taught that there were 5 taxonomic kingdoms -
> >bacteria,protozoa,plants,animals and fungi. Later, they decided they
> >decided certain organisms put in the same category as bacteria were much
> >different than their relatives, so they added another layer and we ended
> up
> >with Domains of Eucarya, Bacteria, and Archaea. With memes, I wonder
> >whether we can add yet another layer of living organism on top of Domains
> -
> >call it the Empires of Memes and Genes.
> >
> Yipes. I wouldn't support the idea of "memes" as living organisms and I
> hardly think they deserve their own taxonomic designation.
> >
> >I like to think of humans as genetic organisms in symbiosis with memetic
> >organisms much like our ancestor protozoans that became the host for
> >mitochondrial bacteria.
> >
> Well, at least mitochondria are tangible.
>
> I don't see much of a chasm between humans and other apes (other chimps
> even- sensu Jared Diamond??). Mayr (in _This is Biology_) contrasts
> Diamond's "third chimp" view with that of Julian Huxley who erected a
> separate kingdom for humans called Psychozoa. Maybe you might call your
> memetic organisms "psychozoans".
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