From: Patrick Wilken (patrickw@cs.monash.edu.au)
Date: Mon Nov 08 1999 - 16:14:24 MST
Menno:
I like Dennett too, but I am not sure I am sold on the ideas of memes.
Certainly from the perspective of the conference. How do you think memes
would resolve any of the binding problems?
I am sort of curious: people talk about memes as this really groovy
explanation, but I can't see them as being an improvement over the ideas
associated with cognition. How is 'memetics' a more powerful tool for
understanding thoughts, emotions, or consciousness, than those developed in
cognitive neuroscience (which lack any mention of memes).
best, patrick
>> From: patrickw@cs.monash.edu.au (Patrick Wilken)
>
>> THE UNITY OF CONSCIOUSNESS:
>> BINDING, INTEGRATION, AND DISSOCIATION
>>
>> Universite Libre de Bruxelles
>> JUNE 29th - JULY 2nd, 2000: BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
>
>> -- Please suggest other sample topics, or modify the above!!
>
>There's absolutely no mention of *memetics* in your list of topics, nor in
>your entire email. Aren't you missing something important ?
>
>`Memes' are a big component of the set of things that make people work,
>therefore logically the science of memetics should give at least some
>insights into consciousness. Personally, I'm convinced that memetics can
>explain *a lot* about consciousness. See e.g. Daniel C. Dennett's book
>`Consciousness Explained'. (Yes, I'm a Dennett fan :-).)
>
>Yours, Menno Rubingh (rubingh@delftnet.nl)
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