Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id TAA10726 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Mon, 11 Feb 2002 19:41:49 GMT X-Originating-IP: [209.240.222.132] From: "Scott Chase" <ecphoric@hotmail.com> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: Words and Memes Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 14:36:15 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: <F287y1o2svIkPt4QSs800012bb3@hotmail.com> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 11 Feb 2002 19:36:15.0334 (UTC) FILETIME=[5E819860:01C1B333] Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>From: "Grant Callaghan" <grantc4@hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>Subject: Re: Words and Memes
>Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 07:16:31 -0800
>
>>Which is why it doesn't make much sense to regard memes as tools. Ideas
>>are
>>tools. Ways of doing things can be thought of as tools. Memes spring up
>>when the tools start running on auto-pilot.
>>
>>Ted
>
>I find it hard to separate ideas from memes. And how can the person who
>picks up a new meme have it running on autopilot as soon as he picks it up?
>Or wasn't it a meme he picked up?
>
>
Maybe a mentifact, a part of the noosystem...using the noogenetic approach
that is.
I wonder how L-memes and G-memes could be squared with mentifacts. socifacts
and artifacts, three thingies that relate to "social heritage" (see David
Bidney's _Theoretical Anthopology_. 1967. Schocken Books. New York, p. 130).
Mentifacts are especially intiguing as Julian Huxley presents them, their
summation pertaining to the noosystem.
In his essay "Evolution, Cultural and Biological" Huxley says:
(bq) "Mentifacts thus serve as the psychological framework of culture, the
mental organs of man in society. They express awareness or experience in
various organized ways- aesthetic and symbolic as well as intellectual- and
communicate and transmit these organizations of experience to others." (eq)
Has anyone done a detailed comparison between Huxleyian noogenetics and
Dawkinsian memetics?
See:
Julian Huxley. 1957. Knowledge, Morality and Destiny (original title: New
Bottles for New Wine). A Mentor Book, New American Library. New York
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