Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id AAA11121 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Mon, 21 Jan 2002 00:19:58 GMT To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Message-Id: <AA-28F91642FCE6E36A633883E5F2BE6481-ZZ@homebase1.prodigy.net> Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 19:16:06 -0500 From: "Philip Jonkers" <PHILIPJONKERS@prodigy.net> Subject: Re: Sensory and sensibility Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
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From: "Francesca S. Alcorn" <unicorn@greenepa.net>
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Sensory and sensibility
>Salice said:
>
>
>> > Some developmental types suggest the 'self' is
not intact until somewhere
>>> in the fourth year.
>>
>>Is the 'self' required for memetic processes?
>
>No, but perhaps the same thing that gives rise to
memes also gives
>rise to a our idea of self: the ability to create an
abstract
>representation of something in our mind.
Exactly... and is has a name too: the self-plex.
See The Meme-Machine.
Philip.
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