From: "Sean Varney" <sean.varney@framestore.co.uk>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Not a comprehensive theory
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 12:11:42 +0100
From: Paul Marsden <paulmarsden@msn.com>
> most dictionaries and social scientists, in terms of the non-genetic
> transmission and acquisition of information. It isn't what you have, it
is
> what you pass on, that is cultural. Your own subjective 'user' awareness
of
> emotions and other qualia, unless they are acquired culturally are not
> memetic from this point of view.
Just a couple of questions
1: What is the smallest form of Culture (this is not as mad as it sounds, is
it 2 humans of an age to pass Memes or one human and a book etc.)
2: What is the smallest meme that can be stored in a medium (pick and as an
illustrate, I do hope I'm not opening the flood gates on the definition of
small. I was thinking of Durom Linners concept of VR as disembodied
Experience.)
Sean Vraney London VR Group
www.lvrg.org.uk
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