Re: Knowledge, Memes and Sensory Perception

From: Wade T. Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Sat Jan 19 2002 - 16:30:07 GMT

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    Hi Joe Dees -

    >>Memes are out there.
    >>
    >>Culture is the matrix of memetic behavior.
    >>
    >And human minds (the emergent products of our physical substrate brains)
    >are the petri dishes in which memes are 'cultured'.

    I'm sure I have to agree to that. I've been using your definition of mind
    for quite a while. The only amendment I'm forced to make, because of the
    first statement, is that the mind is a function of all of its parts, and,
    as such, the petri dish has to include the body. And then, by extension,
    tools.

    - Wade

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