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Philip wrote:
>>it is the
>>current gene-pool which build brains that restrict meme-creativity
>>potential.
Wade said:
>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?
But if you look at it historically, there are instances where it took
people a long time to make a connection that seems perfectly obvious
to us. I was thinking about "meme" as a concept. For years both
biology and anthropology both had these concepts which *we* realize
now have a great deal in common, reflecting underlying processes of
replication and transmission from generation to generation. Were
these stored in separate parts of the brain, in neural networks which
had little to no cross-connections, possibly even an effect of mutual
inhibition? (This would suggest that we could encode the same (or
very similar) memes in different parts of the brain.) This structure
prevents our memes from "running around inside our minds chaotically"
and helps us sort out potentially useful meme combinations from ones
which are completely useless. But there are instances where this
actually inhibits the conjugation of memes which might prove to be
very fruitful. I think that switching your focus to the concept of
iterations might even bring together concepts from even more diverse
fields of thought.
frankie
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