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Re: hofstadter /Dawkins Re: mathematic processes & tone clock
hofstadter wrote quite a bit about the meme meme.
he never claimed to own it. and who can own a meme anyway...
the concept had not been mentioned in this thread, thus my perplexed
reply...
>...
> Actually, the concepts look pretty durn cool alright. However, I'm not
> really sure that I know where in the thread these ideas had been
>attributed
> to Hofstadter. On cursory inspection this memes thing looks like a
> slightly more culturally oriented set of ideas than Hofstadter's; who, it
> seemed, was more interested in perception from the point of the
>individual.
> While culture plays a part in his theories, it is not necessarily the
> central issue.
>...