Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id MAA28553 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Fri, 2 Feb 2001 12:17:18 GMT Message-ID: <2D1C159B783DD211808A006008062D3101745C2D@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: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 12:02:23 -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
> >> We're talking about a particular kind of information that induces
> >> particular kinds of behaviours, surely there must be some consistency
> >> of form or pattern in order for it to be transmissable across many
> >> generations of hosts?
>
<transmitted ideas mean something a bit different for the recipients
> than they do for the transmitters because the context to which they
> must relate themselves - the existing gestalt - differs some for each
> brain. They are similar enough to allow for behavior to be to some
> degree reproduced due to the fact that we share certain ground
> conditions - perception, symbolicity, our somatic existence among
> others upon a common earth, and so on.>
>
I concur with this.
Vincent
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