From: Sayke@aol.com
Date: Thu Nov 04 1999 - 20:15:08 MST
In a message dated 11/4/99 3:43:02 AM Pacific Standard Time, asa@nada.kth.se
writes:
> Seriously, I think the queme idea isn't completely ridiculous. Maybe
> the quemes are correlations/consistencies in the world around us? They
> replicate in a way, since a world with many correlations is likely to
> produce new events and pbjects embodying the correlations or new
> meta-correlations. Of course, now we come full circle since genes and
> memes are special instances of quemes.
quemes = emes? not long after i read _the selfish gene_, i starting
thinking that memes and genes were subsets of 'emes' in general, where an eme
was any pattern of cause and effect that spread across and ran on multiple
substrates. so, pool balls being hit could be viewed as emetic substrates of
a sort, with momentum being the eme... i guess my beef with this viewpoint is
that its waaaaay to general, so it probably doesnt help much if your looking
for explanative/predictive functionality. however, with refinement it might
become something useful...
sucker for loud angry music #5.23^9.37382,
sayke, v2.3.05 (listening to rage against the machine)
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