Re: La memetique a-t-elle change votre vie / Has memetics changed your life ?

From: Scott Chase (ecphoric@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Jun 18 2001 - 06:26:03 BST

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    >From: TJ Olney <market@cc.wwu.edu>
    >Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    >To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
    >Subject: Re: La memetique a-t-elle change votre vie / Has memetics changed
    >your life ?
    >Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 13:35:38 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
    >
    >I was already aware of memetics without having a name for it as early as
    >1974, when I first read a book comparing thoughts to viruses. The concept
    >changed my life then and has continued to affect the way I think about
    >things. It has served as a filtering device for many subsequent exposures
    >to many more or less infectious memeplexes. The biggest filtering in
    >terms of my own life was that I think I managed to fail to be fully
    >"indoctrinated" by my PhD program, having already been infected with
    >Batesonian notions of cretura and pleroma, I simply rejected notions that
    >tried to assume cretura out of existence while learning the methods used
    >for measuring pleroma.
    >
    Ah yes. Creatura and pleroma. What pray tell were these suppose to mean
    again? Does one need to re-create Jung's mindset in _Seven Sermons to the
    Dead_ to apprehend these elusive terms?

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