<span class="gmail_quote"></span><br><div><span class="q"><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/12/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Lee Corbin</b> <<a href="mailto:lcorbin@rawbw.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
lcorbin@rawbw.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>It threatens to keep on expanding until the term has lost all utility<br>whatsoever.</blockquote></span><div><br>Only to those items it can be applied to. Think of how many words there are in the English language which mean the same thing, "part" for example, you have body parts, car parts, nano parts, etc.
<br><br>If you want me to use the term RCNPFUEM (Replicating Cortex Neural Patterns Fundamentally Underlying External Memes) I'm happy to do so, but I don't think people will understand what I'm saying in front of a conference room (at least until Google has indexed this message and people have agreed upon the definition and put it in Wikipedia...
<br><br>I like being Humpty Dumpty. In this case it is *I*, not Calvin, who may be allowing the word to mean "more". You are simply arguing for "less".<br></div><span class="q"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
To include *memories* and *any information that can be copied* seems like going way too far.</blockquote></span><div><br>Not when the cultural memes have a real physical basis in the neural patterns that are going on in the brains (IMO).
<br></div><span class="q"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I think that it may be a lost cause to remove "ideas" from being memes.
<br>Haven't we just seen that usage in too many places? But if we can<br>restrict its meaning, in my opinion we should.</blockquote></span><div><br>Ok, I'll use RCNPFUEM from now on when I'm talking about the topic of internal neural patterns that behave like memes. But the newbies will be lost and a lot of people will be taking up valuable conference time asking me to explain how to spell rec-nep-fuem and what it means. :-)
<br><br>Robert<br><br> </div><br></div><br>