Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 10:06:15 +0100
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
From: Robin Faichney <robin@faichney.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: The Meme Machine
In-Reply-To: <199904082130.RAA31755@smtp2.mindspring.com>
In message <199904082130.RAA31755@smtp2.mindspring.com>, Bill Benzon
<bbenzon@mindspring.com> writes
>At 8:06 PM 4/8/99 +0100, Chris Lees wrote:
.....
>>After all, fighting - or, avoiding an
>>attack - becomes very easy, if your opponents are moving at half
speed.
>
>Take a look at John Jerome, The Sweet Spot in Time (1980) for a look at
>sports from this POV.
The Inner Game series is about getting into "the zone".
But the classic is Zen in the Art of Archery. Please
excuse the HTML:
Eugen Herrigel.
<EM>Zen in the Art of Archery</EM>.
Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1953.
Translated by R.F.C. Hull.
W. Timothy Gallwey.
<EM>The Inner Game of Tennis</EM>.
Random House, New York, 1974.
Barry Green and W. Timothy Gallwey.
<EM>The Inner Game of Music</EM>.
Pan Books, London, 1987.
W. Timothy Gallwey and Bob Kriegel.
<EM>Inner Skiing</EM>.
Random House, New York, 1977.
It could be useful to categorise all these meditative and
sports techniques as the short and/or long-term purging of
memes to free resources for other purposes. This seems
different in principle from the competition between
incompatible memes, even though the purging concept is a
meme and therefore such competition must play a part in
any discussion of it or even thinking about it.
BTW, Chris, if you're listening, a cite for Gabora would
be nice.
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