[extropy-chat] Fwd: Calvin and Memes (was Memes and Identity)

[Damien Broderick]

At 03:43 PM 11/12/2006 -0500, Robert wrote:

>Ok, I'll use RCNPFUEM from now on when I'm talking about the topic 
>of internal neural patterns that behave like memes.

Neuremes? Or hexemes (since Calvin's neural gadgets are hexagons)? Or 
ideomemes (they're idea-memes)? Or idiomemes (they're proliferating 
one-offs)? (Fred Jameson, Marxist literary theorist of note, coined 
"ideologemes" as persistent structural components of social thought patterns.)

Damien Broderick