Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id KAA03539 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Mon, 28 Jan 2002 10:04:54 GMT Message-ID: <002101c1a7e3$a99ae500$1aa6bed4@default> From: "Kenneth Van Oost" <Kenneth.Van.Oost@village.uunet.be> To: <kennethvanoost@myrealbox.com> Subject: Fw: sex and the single meme Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 11:07:10 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
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> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <salice@gmx.net>
> > > On 25 Jan 2002, at 21:57, Kenneth Van Oost wrote:
> > > > << Their own evolutionary disposition of being pro- life for
> themselves.
> > > > Memes just use you and me, this list, the Net to put forward their
own
> > > > progency. All the ones who are around, in all their forms possible,
> are
> > > > the ones who survived and will thrive.
> > >
> > > Actually it can be seen from both sides.
> > >
> > > Taking the "memes are selfish - we carry them" side. Which selfish
> > > memes will survive? Answer: Those who stay around with us and
> > > get copied more than others. Which memes do stay around with
> > > us? Answer: Memes which help us dna-beings to survive. There's
> > > the circle. Those memes survive which help us to survive.
> >
> > << Yes and no ! Those memes only help us to survive in order to survive
> > themselves. They don 't care, so to speak, about you and me, they use
> > us, simply as that ! Like Keith Henson said, memes that don 't help us
> > to survive directly, use our survival- ability and memetic driven
survival
> > desire to get propagation succes in the long run.
> >
> > Memes select the what to learn material in order to built any given
> environ-
> > ment where they can strive/ survive and propagate better than before.
> > Human culture is such a selected place, and memes select genes and
> > other memes just for that !
> > Their reproduction succes relies on such notions.
> > Humans are not the little executive elements of culture, memes are !
> > Little we are, being just vehicles for the memes' sake.
> > But like I said before, fight those memes....
> >
> > > Someday culture might take of, but as of today we as humans are
> > > the little executive elements of culture. In one way we as
> > > individuals help the culture to survive, in the other way around
> > > culture helps us to survive.
> >
> > << That is how you look at it ! As an individual you don 't actually
help
> > your culture to survive, you help it to sustain in all its aspects.
> > Idaes about race, gender, nationality, religion, profession,...are yours
> to
> > follow, but they are NOT yours ! They are culture- bound.
> > Giving in, and unfortunaly our cultural ways are so set, that we can 't
> > escape such, is giving up " the real you ".
> >
> > bin Laden, said once, all Americans were his enemies. Strange thought
> > as you see a 6 month old baby in the arms of his 84 years old granddad!
> > But, that is not so strange as you think, those people were to wear,so
> > to speak, there being- American as a second skin. Each an every commu-
> > nity makes something somewhere ' common '.
> > Stripping ourselves of such a notion, is according to Nietzsche, very
> > difficult and pehaps impossible because,
> >
> > Nietzsche had many doubts about the psychological bearing of the
> > modern individual.
> > And that means in a memetic sense that memes put forward defense-
> > mechanisms against attempts from others ( and genes) to take their
> > place. We need to overcome those mechanisms...
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Kenneth
> >
>
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