Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id EAA17164 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Wed, 28 Nov 2001 04:58:55 GMT X-Originating-IP: [209.240.222.132] From: "Scott Chase" <ecphoric@hotmail.com> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: Study shows brain can learn without really trying Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 23:53:55 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: <F23zdxmDv8vN8yIlCyN000115e6@hotmail.com> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 28 Nov 2001 04:53:56.0083 (UTC) FILETIME=[AF45B430:01C177C8] Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>From: "Kenneth Van Oost" <Kenneth.Van.Oost@village.uunet.be>
>Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
>Subject: Re: Study shows brain can learn without really trying
>Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 21:41:46 +0100
>
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: Scott Chase <ecphoric@hotmail.com>
>To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
>Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 12:09 AM
>Subject: Re: Study shows brain can learn without really trying
>
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> >
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> > >From: Wade Smith <wade_smith@harvard.edu>
> > >Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> > >To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> > >Subject: Re: Study shows brain can learn without really trying
> > >Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 14:08:59 -0500
> > >
> > >>My point was that, though you only use the wheel, they don't
> > >>reinvent it,
> > >>but imitate it.
> > >
> > >Ah. But they use it too- and they mutate it via their use.
> > >Otherwise, all memetics would be is cloning, and it ain't.
> > >
> > >
> > Instead of vague abstractions, what about the nitty griity on actual
>wheels?
> > Brands, styles, new trends?
> >
> > Ever see them skateboard style lowered cars and trucks with the low
>profile
> > tires jutting from the fenders? Solid rims on motorcycles that almost
>look
> > like they belong on a car?
> >
> > There's a vast aftermarket for custom wheels out there. Does anybody
>study
> > this stuff? What's hot and what's not? *That* would be interesting,
>minor
> > variations on the wheel theme and what's more apt to be utilitized by
> > certain subsets of the automobile enthusiast population.
> >
> > Heck even bicycle rims have variations, spokes versus mags for instance.
>
>Hi Scott,
>
>There are special magazines for that kind of stuff !
>Maybe you ought to buy one for seeking out what is hot or not, hm,
>that rimes..
>
>Also there was a lot to do about Lance Amstrong who won the Tour of
>France ( Cycling), where everybody else was using force to get up the
>mountains, he prefered to use his bycicle as it was intented, to paddle
>around. The trick he uses is that he makes more rotations than everybody
>else.
>Also that can be learned from those magazines I mentioned earlier.
>Not that I am in depth of those...
>
>
Ther's a certain irony in dwelling on academic literature and scholarly
works when the raw data might be pointed to by browsing through a
supermarket magazine rack. I used to read hot rod magazines back many moons
ago.
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