Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 18:45:56 +0100
From: Chris Lees <chrislees@easynet.co.uk>
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Subject: Re: The Meme Machine
Robin wrote:
> 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.
I've read Herrigel, of course, and have 'The inner game of
kayaking'. Some people dismiss Herrigel because he was
a Nazi. Suzuki is also suspect, as a supporter of the Jap
Imperialist regime during WWII.
I've never bothered to investigate the truth or otherwise
of those allegations, because I don't follow their particular
brand of zen.
If your "purging concept" = Blackmore's "meme-eating meme",
then I am in agreement with you.
Liane's older paper, where she mentions the linkage to
meditation, is here
http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/jom-emit/1997/vol1/gabora_l.html
Her newer version is also on the web, but I don't have the URL
handy on this computer. If I come across it, I'll post it later.
She develops her ideas in many directions, and I'm personally
very impressed by her thinking, but I don't think she has (yet?)
extended the range of that specific reference to meditation.
Chris.
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~chrislees/tao.index.html
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