From: "Richard Brodie" <richard@brodietech.com>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: implied or inferred memes
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 21:21:07 -0700
In-Reply-To: <199910051529.LAA24249@smtp7.atl.mindspring.net>
And are you hoping to spread this point of view to others? If so, what
factors do you think will influence the speed and success with which it is
spread? Do you think it will spread "on its own" after you stop consciously
driving it?
That's a meme.
Richard Brodie richard@brodietech.com
http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie
-----Original Message-----
From: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk [mailto:fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk]On Behalf
Of Bill Benzon
Sent: Tuesday, October 5, 1999 8:37 AM
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Subject: Re: implied or inferred memes
At 9:05 AM 10/5/99 +0000, Mark M. Mills wrote:
>
>"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.
I know you have. I simply don't see any value in calling things in our
heads memes of any sort. I don't deny the we have ideas in our heads, even
ideas that we've learned from others in any of a number of possible ways,
including imitation. As far as I'm concerned all you are doing is
providing a new name for entities we already know about. But that new name
does not bring with it any new explanatory mechanisms.
William L. Benzon 201.217.1010
708 Jersey Ave. Apt. 2A bbenzon@mindspring.com
Jersey City, NJ 07302 USA http://www.newsavanna.com/wlb/
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