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>From: "B. Lane Robertson"
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>Subject: Re: virus: Nursery Rhyme Memes
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>> Yes, musical "hooks" would also seem to be a
good
>> area for study. I note that the word "hook" is
>> also used in the study of viruses (and I have
>> taken to using it to mean the "emotional"
>> component to a "stage two" meme which
encourages
>> infestation... though which, in my analysis is
not
>> actually a "meme", but might better be referred
to
>> as a "virus"). Further, I do not know that I
>> would agree with the sentiment that such
musical
>> *patterns* are (being musical) *necessarily*
>> devoid of "meaning" (or "symbolic ideational
>> components", wasn't it?)
>>
>> So, I think that music is most properly an
"idea"
>> which has been split into parts whose
>> re-arrangement can only refer back to that
>> singular idea (no matter what musical form it
>> takes). OR, I might say that a meme which is
in a
>> viral stage develops "musical" components
>> (syncopation) which acts as a *hook* to spread
the
>> idea inherent in the meme. Or (at most), that
>> music is a prime example of a virus (though
would
>> stop short of saying that it was a meme--
except
>> to say that it is the <language> meme, itself,
and
>> so conveys the memetic intent of transmitting
>> sound and rhythm such that ideas might be
>> organized into A language [stopping short of
>> saying that music is a *different* language]).
>>
>> Some food for thought.
>>
>>
>> B. Lane Robertson
>> Indiana, USA
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>
>Just as sounds can be located in a 3-D lattice
comprised of
>amplitude, frequency and timbre, sights can be
located in a 3-D
>lattice comprised of size, color and shape.
Vision is, after all, a
>single octave of wavelength, centered around
green. This would
>lead me to believe that if there are melodic
viruses, there must be
>eidetic image viruses as well. Joe
>>
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