From: "Aaron Agassi" <agassi@erols.com>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: i-memes and m-memes
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 16:48:06 -0400
In-Reply-To: <37CADE92.B4815918@pacbell.net>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk [mailto:fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk]On Behalf
> Of Bill Spight
> Sent: Monday, August 30, 1999 3:42 PM
> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: i-memes and m-memes
>
>
> Dear Aaron,
>
> > Dust particles can replicate memetically.
>
> Please explain.
Empiricism can be seen as part of Memetics. That which is perceived may then
reproduce (and mutate), memetically. That is to say that the perceiver
creates an idea from the experience.
As for the utility of this model, please reference my other posts.
Suffice that all is memetic, but dormancy is the norm, and Memetics the
study of the exception, i.e., transmission and replication. This rescues us
from such degenerative vagaries as "potential memes" or non-definitions of
memes based upon prior history of transmission and replication, by which the
characteristic is not described, and ideas that are meme-like in every way
("potential memes"?) aren't memes simply because they are yet to be
communicated. (That should not be the intrinsic definition but only the
experimental test.)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bill
>
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