Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id SAA04796 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Sun, 4 Feb 2001 18:30:22 GMT X-Originating-IP: [209.240.222.130] From: "Scott Chase" <ecphoric@hotmail.com> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: RE: Memes and emotions Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 13:27:34 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: <F119tfUDbbkA5JIzpNc000021b7@hotmail.com> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Feb 2001 18:27:34.0635 (UTC) FILETIME=[24B5D3B0:01C08ED8] Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>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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