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

["Lance Chance" <lrc8918@louisiana.edu>]

> hofstadter wrote quite a bit about the meme meme.
(thought it was a typo but then got then joke, teehee.)

Wow, does he talk about it in Gödel Escher Bach.  It's a big book and I'm
still working on it.   It's something like Foucault's Pendulum for me and I
get 4 pages along or so before I have to go cross reference something to
truly grasp what the hell is going on.   Reading it has been just as much 
of
a mystical experience for me, as well.   LOOPERS REALLY NEED TO GET THIS
BOOK.   It's very like what we do with sound but applied to life.   I'm
thinking of doing my loop performances under the name Recursive Algorythm.

----- Original Message -----
From: "jim palmer" <jimp@pobox.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 9:05 AM
Subject: 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.
> >...
>