From: "John C. 'Buck' Field" <info@fieldoperative.com>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: comparison/contrast of memes and engrams
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 13:13:26 -0500
In-Reply-To: <B0006594226@hamextw01.htcomp.net>
You had said:
>In terms of the Wilson review of Meme Machine, I'm avoiding the problem of
>saying the openning bars of Beethoven's 5th symphony are a powerful meme
>because they are common. I've defined fitness of the L-meme in terms of
>organism success.
You thus indicated that organism success was a primary metric by which memes could be
judged, which I don't see as having much relation to memetic spread, I failed to
grasp/recognize the inherent problems of "common memes are powerful memes", and I
don't have a method to measure organism success. ....so I feel a piece missing from
your post which seems interesting, but I have not gotten the focus, or something. How
does one judge organism success in a manner that predicts memetic fitness?
Commonality refers to the percentage of a group with a particular characteristic, like
self-identifying as having faith in God, as Republican, or as a netizen, or external
diagnosis of a characteristic like having cholera or allergies.
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk [mailto:fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk]On Behalf
>Of Mark M. Mills
>Sent: Monday, October 18, 1999 1:59 AM
>To: Memetics List
>Subject: RE: comparison/contrast of memes and engrams
>
>
>John C. 'Buck' Field, info@fieldoperative.com wrote:
>
>>"Commonality" seems easily measured and defined when compared to the
>>introduction of "organism success". What procedure would measure
>>such a metric?
>
>Could you restate your question? It would help if I knew more about how
>you use the term 'commonality.'
>
>Mark
>
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