Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id XAA10854 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Sun, 20 Jan 2002 23:28:16 GMT To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Message-Id: <AA-7F173469F4D24E87081FF8BBCA995A2B-ZZ@homebase1.prodigy.net> Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 18:24:14 -0500 From: "Philip Jonkers" <PHILIPJONKERS@prodigy.net> Subject: Re: A Confusing Example Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>Philip said:
>
>>Good point, Assisted Discovery I like that.
>>Nothing has been transferred indeed,
>>but the meme-host has discovered the meme himself
>>with or without stimulus. If without stimulus he
>>might be called a meme originator, though he might
>>not be the first at that of course. Consequently,
>>he may start spreading it by conventional means
>>of transmission or by the Assisted Discovery
mechanism
>>if he is conscious of it.
Frankie:
>I think there is a term for this in teaching: guided
learning. It's
>basic premise is that you have many modalities
(sensory channels) of
>learning, and that you will learn something
more "deeply" (my word,
>sorry for the clumsy paraphrase) if you learn it
through *many*
>modalities, especially through experience (motor). I
even have a
>diagram somewhere of the experiential learning cycle,
I'll have to
>get it out and dust it off to see if it might not be
relevant to
>*process* of transmission.
The brain learns through iteration. Learning through
different modalities may embed the meme (abstract-
wise) with projections over multiple centers of the
brain (for each modality one). But this is all
speculative and unknown in brainscience at the
moment as far as I know.
Philip.
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