While it is true that memes are communicated by mimicry, it doesn't have to be exact.
Somehow this reminds me of a clinical trial I once worked on where the endpoint of primary interest, rather than being just the incidence of hypoglycemic episodes, was subjects' awareness of their hypoglycemic episodes. Quite a slippery concept to measure.
"Music is a curious medium. Utterly abstract in its construction, but completely sensuous in its apperception. Tunes, rhythms can only be conveyed by exact mimicry. They are not ideas." - 'Mozic And The Revolution', Germaine Greer in Oz, 1969.
While it is true that memes are communicated by mimicry, it doesn't have to be exact.
Somehow this reminds me of a clinical trial I once worked on where the endpoint of primary interest, rather than being just the incidence of hypoglycemic episodes, was subjects' awareness of their hypoglycemic episodes. Quite a slippery concept to measure.
"Music is a curious medium. Utterly abstract in its construction, but completely sensuous in its apperception. Tunes, rhythms can only be conveyed by exact mimicry. They are not ideas."
- 'Mozic And The Revolution', Germaine Greer in Oz, 1969.
The perceiving of perceiving. Cf. Gurdjieff's "Self Remembering".