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Ben Stein Withdraws As UVM Commencement Speaker

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Salamantis2/04/2009 5:17:47 pm PST

re: #582 Hhar

Behold: total evasion of the simple question. I’ll repeat it: If one persons earworm of the first notes represents all the chords, and the person can even pick out the different instruments, and another only remembers 4 simple tones and the rhythm, what is the meme?

If you are saying that they are two different memes, then the opening 4notes of Beethoven’s symphony IS NOT A MEME. It is at best, a bunch of memes. bang goes your primary example of what a meme is as a unit, thank you very much.

g’night.

What you have just furnished is an example of differential memetic mutation in the minds of different recipients; congratulations! It is precisely because of both intentional alterations and inadvertent misapprehensions that memes evolve.

If a night-blind person only sees a silver smear where another person with excellent night sight can point out patterns of light and darkness, does this mean either that the moon does not exist, or that there are multiple moons? The same goes with the tone deaf and the perfect pitch person hearing the same musical phrase.