RE: virus: Modes of Transmission

From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Wed Jan 16 2002 - 00:02:31 MST


On 16 Jan 2002 at 15:38, Steele, Kirk A wrote:

One may communicate to others by employing all the modes I have
listed; that is the point.
>
> these are also developmental stage in developmental psychology. Kohlberg,
> Seligmann, and Sellman.
>
> mimmicry
> self awareness
> self as sole object
> others as objects
> subjetive self
> others as subjective
>
> Your question centers on the concept of scaffolding.
>
> Your solution set, so far only considers the social scaffold perspective.
>
> Your models do not allow for emergence, merely replication. Although you
> question asks Modes of transmission, I feel I must remit that one not the
> horse behind the cart.
>
> Modes of Creation will yeild Modes of transmission for the seperate
> scaffolds unto which ideas are born.
>
> Kirk
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: joedees@bellsouth.net [mailto:joedees@bellsouth.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 3:11 PM
> To: virus@lucifer.com
> Subject: RE: virus: Modes of Transmission
>
>
> On 16 Jan 2002 at 14:41, Steele, Kirk A wrote:
> >
> But that makes all the difference. It's in the absence of its object, just
> like a can speak of b to c when c is absent, but only point to c when c is
> present.
> >
> > Isn't five a derivative of one, minus the direct association inherent in
> > one?
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: joedees@bellsouth.net [mailto:joedees@bellsouth.net]
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 2:19 PM
> > To: virus@lucifer.com
> > Subject: Re: virus: Modes of Transmission
> >
> >
> > On 15 Jan 2002 at 23:08, joedees@bellsouth.net wrote:
> >
> > > On the memetics list, we have come up with four modes of memetic
> > > transmission:
> > >
> > > 1) Showing - a bodily demonstration, such as knapping a handaxe for
> > > an audience.
> > >
> > > 2) Telling - verbally or manually (signing) communicating via a common
> > > symbol system.
> > >
> > > 3) Writing - inscribing glyphs which stand for spoken/signed language.
> > >
> > > 4) Picturing - creating a representation of the object of communication
> > > via drawing, photography, etc.
> > >
> > > Can anyone here think of others?
> > >
> > I came up with a fifth: miming. It is different from showing, since it
> > takes
> > place in the absence of its object, and different from picturing, as it is
>
> > ephemeral, rather than being frozen in a medium.
> >
>
>



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