Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id BAA27469 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Thu, 17 Jan 2002 01:22:02 GMT Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 17:17:35 -0800 Message-Id: <200201170117.g0H1HZ329036@mail14.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: [216.76.251.226] From: "Joe Dees" <joedees@addall.com> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: Do all memes die out or evolve? I think not. Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is)
>Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 19:59:13 -0500
> memetics@mmu.ac.uk "Francesca S. Alcorn" <unicorn@greenepa.net> Re: Do all memes die out or evolve? I think not.Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>
>> > If the meme is semantic content, how do we approach this change
>>> in meaning? What stays the same, and what changes?
>>> How can meme1 be meme2?
>>
>>I think the 'historic' meme stays the same (the form). What
>>changes is the environment of that meme, which consists mostly
>>of other memes which changed. Our understanding and
>>interpretation does not only result from the historic meme but also
>>from the sourrounding/referring ones.
>
>
>But you do not think the same way you did 15 years ago, and the
>argument could be made that *you* are not the same person you were 15
>years ago. But we recognize that there is some continuity there
>which causes us to call you the same person.
>
>But now I have a question. If two identical memes arise in two
>completely different environments, are they the same meme?
>
Or to reword the question, is the context-free meme simpliciter definitional, or is it instead the relationship between the meme and its gestalt context that defines the meme? Or is it an either-or?
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