Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id DAA11894 (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 03:33:40 GMT Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 19:29:17 -0800 Message-Id: <200201210329.g0L3THw31768@mail2.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: [66.156.194.69] From: "Joe Dees" <joedees@addall.com> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: The necessity of mental memes Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is)
> memetics@mmu.ac.ukDate: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 21:06:00 -0500
> "Philip Jonkers" <PHILIPJONKERS@prodigy.net> Re: The necessity of mental memesReply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
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>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.
>
Eventually we will have to scientize memetically empirically. At the moment, we can only broad-brush-stroke correlate (as to major types), but we shall achieve finer and finer grained differentiations as time and technology marches on.
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>Philip.
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