Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id EAA07960 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Sat, 24 Nov 2001 04:45:53 GMT From: <joedees@bellsouth.net> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 22:12:08 -0600 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: A Question for Wade Message-ID: <3BFEC9B8.11961.6EA4B30@localhost> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
You have voiced the opinion that there is no such thing as the L-
meme (internal), and that only G-memes exist, whereas I see both
as stages in the memetic lifecycle. While it is true that memes
can only replicate between hosts, it is also true that they can only
intentionally mutate (where noise is not the reason) within a host.
my question to you is that, if the meme does not reside in the
patterned configurations of your neurons and synapes between
episodes where you voice your position, exactly where DOES it
reside? Are you claiming that you dream it up anew, out of whole
cloth, every time, and that there is no such thing as MEMory, or
that memory does not subserve the funtion of memetic storage? In
such a case, exactly what it is that memory is doing? The fine-
grained evidence for the particular synaptic configuration storing
particular memes may be beyond our present technological
capacity to produce, but it would seem that the logical case for
them is well-nigh irrefuteable.
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