From: "elan" <elan@omega23.com>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: memetics and genetics
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 09:59:39 -0600
Frankie,
Memes don't have to be 'brain -stored'. In fact most of modern progess is
due to the fact that memes are stored in more acurate and dependable storage
mechanisms that can be widely distributed (with almost no errors). A more
extensive/technical discussion is available at
http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/3123/ms2.html
Another aspect to keep in mind is despite the current fascination with
'pathological' memes, there are many neutral and positive memes in
circulation. We are currently lacking in a good systematics / taxanomy of
memes.
regards
Elan
(elan@omega23.com)
----- Original Message -----
From: Francesca S. Alcorn <unicorn@greenepa.net>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 1999 9:29 AM
Subject: Re: memetics and genetics
> > >MEME: (pronounced 'meem') 1. A self-spreading thought, idea, attitude,
> >belief, or other brain-stored item of learned culture. 2. (Technical
usage)
> >A memory item, or portion of an organism's neurally-stored information,
> >whose occurrence depended critically on causation by prior occurrence of
the
> >same memory item in one or more other organisms' nervous systems.
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> Why does it have to be brain-stored? Why not book-stored? A
> photocopier could be a form of "asexual" reproduction - producing no
> new variations, whereas the brain is the arena of sexual reproduction
> of ideas. Computers would fall into a sort of a gray area, since
> they to can manipulate information. Or is it the old "If a tree
> falls in the woods and no one hears it" scenario. If I publish a
> book and no one reads it......
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> Frankie
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