Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id OAA11447 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Wed, 28 Mar 2001 14:57:26 +0100 Subject: RE: The Demise of a Meme Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 08:53:46 -0500 x-sender: wsmith1@camail2.harvard.edu x-mailer: Claris Emailer 2.0v3, Claritas Est Veritas From: "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu> To: "memetics list" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Message-ID: <20010328135354.AAA3134@camailp.harvard.edu@[128.103.125.215]> Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
On 03/28/01 07:53, Vincent Campbell said this-
>and to try
>and rid oneself of_all_memes is in my view a dreadful thing not a positive
>thing.
I only meant (only...), that memelessness is a necessary condition for
the eureka moment- that this act of creation cannot and will not happen
in a swim of memes (namely preconditions and preconceptions), and, since
the creative moment is a 'good' thing (there, I said it...), memelessness
is a good thing.
Impossible to achieve for more than a moment, of course.
And, yes, if anyone could come up with an experiment to determine
memelessness that is humane, I'd love to know about it. IMHO, there is no
such thing, in my set of ethics.
- Wade
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