Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id NAA07453 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Fri, 30 Mar 2001 13:08:21 +0100 To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: RE: The Demise of a Meme X-Remote_Addr: 195.195.65.222 Message-Id: <E14ixdz-0000FD-00@gaea> From: Douglas Brooker <dbrooker@clara.co.uk> Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 13:04:43 +0100 Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 10:21:35AM +0100, Douglas Brooker wrote:
>
> perhaps slightly related, what is the difference in memetic language,
> between a characteristic of a person or group, and information which
> they may have stored in their minds or body?
AND THEN R FAICHEY ANSWERED:
There isn't one.
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So does this mean than when I look at you you are a part of my identity?
What is the effect on your identity of having been looked at?
V CAMPBELL:
> I am curious though- to return more explicitly to memetics, how you
> can view psychology as the discipline most appropriate for
investigating
> culture and memetics as appropriate for investigating individual
minds. In
> seems to me that the opposite is the case. Culture is an emergent
property
> of social interaction- so social psychology perhaps- but memetics, to
my
> mind anyway, is about group behaviours not about individuals.
Would be interested to hear how such a strong distinction between
individual and group behaviour is justified, other than as a western
cultural bias.
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