Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id UAA22261 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Tue, 15 Jan 2002 20:01:55 GMT Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 14:57:06 -0500 Subject: Re: Knowledge, Memes and Sensory Perception Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed From: Wade Smith <wade_smith@harvard.edu> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <LAW2-F32bXS0FhKktkp00001841@hotmail.com> Message-Id: <0D9B1888-09F2-11D6-922A-003065A0F24C@harvard.edu> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.480) Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
On Tuesday, January 15, 2002, at 02:03 , Grant Callaghan wrote:
> It doesn't seem possible to me that a meme could just appear
> and be communicated without having been thought of first.
Why not?
Haven't you done something, even from some intention, that turns
out very different from what you were thinking? And why, pray
tell, does what you are thinking of making have to do with the
actual communication of it?
Is everything you express exactly expressed the way you were
thinking of expressing it?
The mechanisms of communication are very, very, open to
alteration even during their process.
Ask any jazz musician.
- Wade
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