Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id FAA23308 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Fri, 30 Nov 2001 05:30:38 GMT Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 21:25:41 -0800 Message-Id: <200111300525.fAU5Pfh29176@mail25.bigmailbox.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary X-Mailer: MIME-tools 4.104 (Entity 4.116) X-Originating-Ip: [216.76.249.221] From: "Joe Dees" <joedees@addall.com> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: the hook Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is)
> Re: the hookDate: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 00:04:13 -0500
> "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu> "Memetics Discussion List" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>
>Hi Joe Dees -
>
>>You seem to believe that such advances will merely explain it away, but
>>give no hint of what would be found to be there instead (and something must).
>
>I beg whatever pardon I might, but what I think will be found there are
>all the trees for the forest- the places and processes of what
>constitutes the human mind/body entity, and the way it works.
>
>The schematic (in real time and 3D) and design specifications of the
>factory, if you will, without the ghosts in the machine.
>
>And the factory just makes the cars.
>
And I see what would be revealed is, among other things, the configurations of specific memes in specific brains. This is cognitively akin to finally getting into a factory and obtaining a schematic for a mechanism within it. I do not expect the neuronal firing patterns that I see eventually being found to correspond to specific memes in particular brains to be ghosts or in any manner supernatural. Nor do I see them being beamed in by a morphic Scotty.
As to artifacts, upon reflection, I have come to the position that for someone to see a Dodge Viper, like it, and go out and buy one, to be a memetic transmission, but the meme is not the artifact car. Rather, it is the having/owning action-relationship that the other person has with their car that is replicated within oneself. By the same token, the relationships of making (say, a banana split)and of saying (that I, too, am a communist/fascist.democrat/ptriot/green/pagan etc.) can also be selected for and replicated
>
>- Wade
>
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