Re: virus: Re: parroting

Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Thu, 20 Aug 98 09:59:08 -0400


>>By repeating, like a parrot, what you heard....
>
>which means that you've heard about the meme, and therefore "knew about
>it". Or am I being facetious ? (is that how to spell facetious ?)

Yes, that is how it is spelled. Please define 'heard about the meme'....
Because, even the Grand PooBah, R. Brodie will tell you, you don't 'hear'
about memes. (Although you can read about them in his book....) You
'hear' about concepts and ideas and maybe some behaviors, you hear about
what it means to answer questions with precisely the words they gave you
to answer them with.

2 + 2 = 4 is not a meme, and if I ask you what 2 + 2 is, and you answer
4, you do not necessarily hold the meme of <addition> resident in your
behavioral set, but you necessarily hold the response of '4' to '2 + 2'.
I hope you see the difference here. Do you hold the meme of <expected
response>? Maybe. How do we test for this difference? That's my question.

Are memes the 'fuzzy' in fuzzy logic? Maybe.

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