Re: hofstadter /Dawkins Re: mathematic processes & tone clock

[jim palmer <jimp@pobox.com>]

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.
>...