Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id CAA11648 (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 02:09:51 GMT To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Message-Id: <AA-A9332A6F1B87D9ADB7FC9EA6AF0D47BD-ZZ@homebase1.prodigy.net> Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 21:06:00 -0500 From: "Philip Jonkers" <PHILIPJONKERS@prodigy.net> Subject: Re: The necessity of mental memes Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Joe:
>A third is to access the PET scan and fMRI studies
that indicate particular cortical energy usage changes
in specific areas correlated with the performance of
particular tasks, both physical and mental. the gun
is smoking, and internal meme location no longer may
be dismissed on the grounds of a lack of empirical
evidence. Of course, we are not able to decode thses
indications in a fine-grained manner, but we DO know
that when a person listens to music, or reads poetry,
or reads text, or imagines a landscape, or performs
mental mathematical calculations, or remembers a word
string, that in each case, a different portion of the
brain burns more sugar (meaning that it needs more
energy because it is being used).
In principle you may be right. But in practise it is
extremely hard to even try to get a bearing on a
neural correlate for say the meme as trivial as,
`terrorism is destructive...'. I think the virtue
and validity of mind-memetics would lie in staying
on an abstract description kind of path.
Philip.
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