Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id DAA01167 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Sat, 9 Feb 2002 03:19:31 GMT X-Originating-IP: [137.110.248.206] From: "Grant Callaghan" <grantc4@hotmail.com> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: Apoptosis Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 19:13:49 -0800 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: <LAW2-F5VqKwRPQIWDO3000053b9@hotmail.com> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 09 Feb 2002 03:13:50.0398 (UTC) FILETIME=[CBC2A5E0:01C1B117] Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>I dont think it is memes that have a point of view. I think that the
>combination of memes each of us has influences the way we see the world to
>a
>certain extent, and that as the memes we have change over time, so too can
>the way we look atthe world
>
>
>Regards
>
>Steve
>
I like this viewpoint, Steve, and agree completely. The evidence for it
lies in how what we believe influences what we see and what we call things
influences how we remember them and react to the emotionally. In other
words, our memes do influence our perceptions and as we adopt new ones, our
perceptions change.
Isn't that what science is all about? We once saw the world as a flat place
where the sun was driven like a chariot across the sky. Then, when the meme
for a round earth took over, we perceived the sun going around the earth.
It took another revelation and a battle of memes before we learned to see
that the earth revolved around the sun. What we see when we look up in the
sky every day hasn't changed. New memes and new information has changed how
we process what we see. How we work it into our map of the universe. That
whole map is composed of memes.
Now our map is changing on a daily basis and so do our perceptions. I've
seen posts that imply people believe we may live in a world like the one
depicted in The Matrix. Other people are saying we are on the verge of
living hundres or thousands of years. The planets that once represented
gods in the sky are now seen as new worlds to conquer and live on. And the
spread of those memes that change our perceptions fly around the world at
the speed of light. So it's not just a tribe here and another there that
has its perceptions changed by new ideas and new visions of reality, but the
entire population of the earth, often in a single day -- as on the day when
men walked upon the moon. The memes were there first, but television made
it real and immediate.
Watching it happen wiped out most of the competing ideas about the moon
similtaneously all over the world. Of course, there is still a lunatic
fringe who believe it never happened, but for the most part, people now
really believe we can walk on any planet in our solar system. That makes
them see the planets in a new light, and that light comes from within us.
Grant
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