From: <RPrestonic@aol.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 14:57:55 EDT
Subject: Re: facets of meme-talk
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
bspight>> Abstract information is not cultural, per se. Embodied knowledge is.
>and
bspight>>Also, as cultural entities, they are enmeshed in a web of meaning.
They
>can be abstracted from the web, but at a loss.<
MemeLab> Very well put. Embodied knowledge is enmeshed in a web of meaning,
and
MemeLab> it is in that context that it has life as a meme. Dealing with it
as only
MemeLab> "information" alone, is to some extent to ignore or downplay this
embodied
MemeLab> web of meaning.
RP: Agreed. And I would venture that a web of meaning is a product of the
RP: evolutionary process that is quite difficult to tie down. A meme or
gene
RP: viewed in a cross-section of time (or meaning-web) might be largely
RP: invisible, since the whole web is largely unknown.
RP: Geez you people think fast. I'm gonna have to get seat-belts for this
chair,
RP: or something. I think I'll go for a bike ride and see if that can stop
my head
RP: from spinning.
RP
Pgh PA
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