Subject: Re: implied or inferred memes
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 99 09:05:09 -0000
From: "Mark M. Mills" <mmills@htcomp.net>
To: "Memetics List" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Bill,
>>>Well, yeah, certainly the mind/brain is a product of development. But it's
>>>not at all clear to me that this development involves mental memes. It
>>>involves the development of neural structures capable of imitating the
>>>G-memes required by the local culture.
>>
>>I'm puzzled by the object of your final sentence, 'neural structures
>>capable of imitating the G-meme.' I think we agree that a G-meme is
>>something in the environment, an object quite often. How will a neural
>>structure 'imitate' an object?
>
>My mistake. Try something like "neural structures capable of realizing the
>G-memes"
OK. To restate your comment:
"It involves development of neural structures capable of realizing the
G-memes."
Great. You have described a genotype/phenotype relationship between 'a
neural structure' and G-meme. I've been calling this neural structure an
L-meme.
Mark
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