Re: Wilkins on the meme:engram relation

From: Scott Chase (ecphoric@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Nov 30 2001 - 19:55:13 GMT

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From: "Scott Chase" <ecphoric@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Wilkins on the meme:engram relation
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    >From: Wade Smith <wade_smith@harvard.edu>
    >Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    >To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    >Subject: Re: Wilkins on the meme:engram relation
    >Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 14:07:33 -0500
    >
    >> >We're always looking for semonal references.
    >>
    >>Were you trying to make a pun?
    >
    >You mean I didn't?
    >
    >
    Yes, I can be mean, but I will give you the benefit of the doubt, however
    poor your punning skills may be. When contemplating semonal references there
    may be vast differences.

    After just re-reading both Gatherer's article and Wilkins's article I'm a
    bit more perplexed by the possiblities of relations between Dawkins B and
    the historical engram/mnemon memory trace concepts and also the relation
    beteen Dawkins B and the L-meme or Lynchian mnemon. Instead of higlighting
    similarity, distinctions should also be made.

    Wilkins may object to my singular focus on one minor aspect of his article,
    but I was reading his article after Gatherer's where the Lynchian
    homoderivative mnemon and Dawkins B were discussed and my one track mind may
    have derailed a bit. Back to the drawing board.

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