Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 12:11:38 +0200
From: "Gatherer, D. (Derek)" <D.Gatherer@organon.nhe.akzonobel.nl>
Subject: RE: i-memes and m-memes
To: "'memetics@mmu.ac.uk'" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
>Derek:
>Yes, of course. If you could show, by PET scanning, that there was some
>replicating internal neural activation pattern
Robin:
But it's not replicating internally, is it? So how is it identified?
Derek:
Yes, of course. Part of my stance is that such replicating neural entities
do not exist. But if you could show that a certain PET pattern appears in
my brain correlated with some behaviour, and that the same PET pattern is
present in other people's brains on doing the same behaviour.....that I
think would be a Dawkins B meme. But of course, it's all science fantasy.
Robin:
it might prove memes in the brain, but it could not disprove memes
outside the brain.
Derek:
Good, so I would still be in business. But part of my thesis is that there
are _no_ internal memes, so proving that would make me at least half
entirely wrong.
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