From: "Aaron Agassi" <agassi@erols.com>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: i-memes and m-memes
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 05:16:14 -0400
In-Reply-To: <xneuuKAJ5Nz3EwIr@faichney.demon.co.uk>
Will you never learn?
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> From: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk [mailto:fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk]On Behalf
> Of Robin Faichney
> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 1999 4:05 AM
> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: i-memes and m-memes
>
>
> In message <2CDFE2C8F598D21197C800C04F911B20349353@DELTA.newhouse.akzono
> bel.nl>, Gatherer, D. (Derek) <D.Gatherer@organon.nhe.akzonobel.nl>
> writes
> >Derek:
> >
> >b) [what internal memes] permit even indirect testing? If you
> can suggest
> >an indirect test [for such internal memes], I'd be very interested.
> >
> >Bill:
> >
> >What are we testing here? Are PET scans relevant? Is amnesia?
> >
> >Derek:
> >Yes, of course. If you could show, by PET scanning, that there was some
> >replicating internal neural activation pattern
>
> But it's not replicating internally, is it? So how is it identified?
>
> >that correlated with some
> >replicating external behaviour, then that would be fairly
> conclusive for the
> >Dawkins B meme.
>
> No, it might prove memes in the brain, but it could not disprove memes
> outside the brain.
> --
> Robin Faichney
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