RE: Memes and emotions

From: Vincent Campbell (v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Feb 05 2001 - 12:57:42 GMT

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    From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk>
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    Oh, I was only making a bad joke, not having a dig.

    Vincent

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    > From: Scott Chase
    > Reply To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    > Sent: Sunday, February 4, 2001 6:27 pm
    > To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    > 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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