Re: Memes inside brain

From: Kenneth Van Oost (Kenneth.Van.Oost@village.uunet.be)
Date: Sun Oct 07 2001 - 20:14:40 BST

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Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2001 21:14:40 +0200
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    ----- Original Message -----
    From: Bill Spight <bspight@pacbell.net>
    To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
    > > > Consider the complaint of the
    > > > young mother that she is treating her children in ways that her mother
    > > > treated her that she hates. This is a fairly clear case of memetic
    > > > inheritance, but there is no evidence of imitation.
    > >
    > > Well she imitates her mother even if she hates it. There's no reason
    > > that you have to like what you imitate. As i said before imitation of
    > > behaviour or meme-selection isn't always a conscious decision-based
    > > process.
    >
    > What I mean is that the memes for treating her children were passed on
    > to her *before* she enacted them in real life. This second enactment may
    > be called imitation, but it is *not* the imitation by which the memes
    > are inherited. That's my point.

    Hi Bill,

    How would you describe/ explain " before " !?
    How comes " before " about !?
    Genetical, memetical, both, in combination !?

    Imitation by which memes are inherited !?
    That 's new.... I am all ears !!!!!!!!

    Best,

    Kenneth

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