RE: Memes and emotions

From: Scott Chase (ecphoric@hotmail.com)
Date: Sun Feb 04 2001 - 18:27:34 GMT

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    From: "Scott Chase" <ecphoric@hotmail.com>
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    Subject: RE: Memes and emotions
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    >From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk>
    >Reply-To: memetics@mmu.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
    >
    >"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.
    >
    >
    Well, I'll need to read Julian Huxley's original usage of the label
    Psychozoa to see how badly I twisted the word in this particular context. I
    just finished an essay of Huxley's last night in the book _Evolution as a
    Process_. Interesting chap. J.Z Young also has a contribution to this book
    where he talks about memory, heredity and information theory. Huxley frowns
    on the mnemic analogy the psycho-Lamarckians such as Semon and McDougall
    used, but sets up Young's essay as possibly being a fruitful approach to the
    very "memetically" inclined analogy.

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