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At 10:27 PM 14/01/02 -0500, Ray Recchia <rrecchia@mail.clarityconnect.com>
wrote:
>At 05:49 PM 1/14/2002 -0800, Joe Dees wrote:
>
>>Then perhaps I-mode and C-mode.
>
>That works better. Guess you would have to add in an A-mode too. I would
>put writing in the C-mode because it is just using language in another
>form and a film of someone performing an activity in the I-mode. The
>A-mode would apply in instances when an artifact devoid of C-mode or
>I-mode conveys function. Such an artifact would qualify as a mode of
>memetic transfer because it was created by someone with a meme for the
>purpose of implementing the meme.
Memes, can be embedded in an object as much as they can be in the printed
page. To give a specific example, a person could come upon a hand ax
(which was actually a killer frisbee) and from examining it deduce how to
chip out a duplicate. It would be harder, but possible (since it was done)
to figure out what it was used for (water hole hunting) especially if a
number of them were found in an old dried up water hole.
Keith Henson
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