Re: Meme bonding

From: Wade Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Mon Jan 28 2002 - 20:35:00 GMT

  • Next message: Grant Callaghan: "RE: Abstractism" 

    Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id UAA04960 (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 20:39:35 GMT
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 15:35:00 -0500
Subject: Re: Meme bonding
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
From: Wade Smith <wade_smith@harvard.edu>
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
In-Reply-To: <012901c1a83e$dc2a8f60$5e2ffea9@oemcomputer>
Message-Id: <803412F9-142E-11D6-A2D9-003065A0F24C@harvard.edu>
X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.480)
Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk
Precedence: bulk
Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk

    On Monday, January 28, 2002, at 04:00 , Philip Jonkers wrote:

    > the brain makes memes.

    So you say....

    Termites make mounds.

    And that's pretty genetic. Unless you want to call it memetic,
    and, you're not alone in that, from what I've seen, what with
    the bird song claims.

    > it is the
    > current gene-pool which build brains that restrict meme-creativity
    > potential.

    And this is an interesting comment. What leads you to think we
    are being restricted in our meme-creativity? What potential
    memes do you see that have their actualities missing?

    - Wade

    ===============================================================
    This was distributed via the memetics list associated with the
    Journal of Memetics - Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission
    For information about the journal and the list (e.g. unsubscribing)
    see: http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/jom-emit

    This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Mon Jan 28 2002 - 21:00:25 GMT