Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id IAA24188 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Wed, 16 Jan 2002 08:31:37 GMT To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Message-Id: <AA-828CD7D032897BB6E4248D2737D5CDB9-ZZ@homebase1.prodigy.net> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 03:27:39 -0500 From: "Philip Jonkers" <PHILIPJONKERS@prodigy.net> Subject: Re: Knowledge, Memes and Sensory Perception Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Wade:
>Whether you think you hold something in your mind
that motivates you or
>not is irrelevant to the memetic progress your idea
will make. Indeed,
>it is quite possible that I will attempt a behavior
that is entirely at
>odds with your motivation. Your behavior is all that
is memetic. I will
>only see what I will see- from my own vantage.
Maybe there a distinction should be made between memes
`in the head' and memes `out in the open'.
That is, on the one hand neural programs dealing
with expression of behavior, meme communication
(such as speech) or processes concerned with memes
((analytic) thinking for example). On the other
hand, we have behaviors and artifacts immediately
ready for imitation and transmission.
As an analogy with physics the former category might
be called potential memes, the latter kinetic memes.
But perhaps latent and actual memes may qualify
as better names.
Philip.
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