Re: virus: The Greeks would be Geeks

Dave Pape (davepape@dial.pipex.com)
Fri, 21 Feb 1997 01:40:40 GMT


At 21:19 20/02/97 +0000, Martz wrote:
>On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Dave Pape <davepape@dial.pipex.com> wrote:
>
>>Memetics: Embryonic; I think it lets me explain how human beings
>>ACTUALLY BEHAVE when they interact with each other. To me, much more
rewarding.
>
>I think it *helps* explain certain phenomena. A good book on behavioural
>psychology can help more.

Oh yeh, it all has its place man, I still explain a lot of psychological
phenomena without talking about memes, and, shit, I'm getting a buzz from
talking about the boundaries of memes and other cognitive phenomena (limbic
influence on thought, reflex, learnt reflex etc... hey, who wants to be a
taxonomist of cognitive phenomena? Memes, Reflexes, Conditioned Motor
Responses, Perceptions, woah...)

I'm just enjoying thinking about cultural transmission of ideas ATM, so
memetics helps me explain more of the stuff that I want to explain right now
than other books.

Dave Pape
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