From: "Aaron Agassi" <agassi@erols.com>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: i-memes and m-memes
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 18:33:38 -0400
In-Reply-To: <37CAD09D.3AF6@easynet.co.uk>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk [mailto:fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk]On Behalf
> Of Chris Lees
> Sent: Monday, August 30, 1999 2:43 PM
> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: i-memes and m-memes
>
>
> I'm enjoying the discussion, and have nothing useful to add,
> but Wade wrote :
>
> > Even recently, the Iceman- there are tattoos on his body we have no
> > explanation for- that are silent to us culturally. There were certainly
> > memes in operation at the time he got tattoo'd, but, other than
> the meme
> > of body decoration, all else is lost, as if it never were there.
> >
> > Perhaps we will find some other forensic evidence to re-establish this
> > meme of his, but, well, I doubt it. A meme lost is a meme gone. If it
> > were ever there to begin with.
>
> There was an article somewhere about this. Sorry I can't supply
> the source.
> Apparently the tattoos coincide ( 80 percent ) with the modern Chinese
> map of acupuncture points, and would have been the appropriate points to
> apply a needle or moxibustion for the particular rheumatic and other
> disease which the Iceman suffered from, if a modern acupuncturist was to
> treat those ailments.
Thus the dormant ice bound meme awakens, intact, or subject to mutation?
>
> Chris.
> http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~chrislees/tao.index.html
>
>
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