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on 9/11/01 4:27 AM, Vincent Campbell at v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk wrote:
>
> A larger problem is that she generally buys into the mind virus
> metaphor, which has been critiqued extensively- not to say it's been argued
> away, as plenty still support this, simply that it's problematic, and I
> personally no longer buy memes in minds, favouring what is usually linked
> most closely to Derek Gatherer's work in JOMEMIT (memes in artefacts, or are
> artefacts).
A position that will get quite a boost with the impending publication of my
book on music: Beethoven's Anvil: Music in Mind and Culture. I also
provide an account of cultural phenotypes that is both along the lines I
have advocated on this list and in previous publications, but yet rather
novel. Above all, I have an extensive discussion of the neural
underpinnings of music.
Benzon, W. L. (1996). "Culture as an Evolutionary Arena." Journal of Social
and Evolutionary Systems 19(4): 321-362.
Benzon, W. L. (1997). "Culture's Evolutionary Landscape: A Reply to
Hans-Cees Speel." Journal of Social and Evolutionary Systems 20(3): 314-322.
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