Matt- I suggest you read Peirce in the original and not secondary musings about
him in Margolis.
Edwina
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From: Matt Faunce
To: Peirce-L
Sent: Monday, October 19, 2015 3:00 AM
Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: [PEIRCE-L] A Second-Best Morality
Regarding what I was
> On Oct 19, 2015, at 12:20 PM, Edwina Taborsky wrote:
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> "To me the big issue were common structures in the environment privileging
> certain interpretations making either diffusion or common mind unnecessary.
> (Much like certain structures evolve independently in
> On Oct 19, 2015, at 1:25 PM, Edwina Taborsky wrote:
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> Clark - I prefer not to think of Jung. You wrote:
>
> "the sorts of things structuralism dealt with in treating the mind as
> literature were correct."
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by the above.
In most ways
> On Oct 16, 2015, at 8:24 PM, Stephen Jarosek wrote:
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> It was very innovative for Dawkins to introduce memetics into the narrative.
> It’s unfortunate that he never developed it further than that.
To my eyes there are two unfortunate yet popular terms of the last 20
Clark - you wrote:
"To me the big issue were common structures in the environment privileging
certain interpretations making either diffusion or common mind unnecessary.
(Much like certain structures evolve independently in nature due to the
environment)"
EDWINA: - Agree up to a point. That
> On Oct 17, 2015, at 6:42 AM, Edwina Taborsky wrote:
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> Stephen J - yes, the spread of a belief/ behaviour by imitation has been
> proposed by some researchers in human society - for a long time. It certainly
> didn't start with Dawkins and his 'memes'. But criticism of
(Please ignore the previous post which was sent accidentally and
prematurely).
Hi Clark, Edwina, Matt, lists,
Can it be that all three are essential as indicated in Figure 1 --
i) Environment (also called the physical),
ii) Mind (also called the mental), and
iii) Structure (also called the
Clark, Edwina, Stephen, List,
I do not see, that there is an either-or, regarding memes and rational beliefs, or diffusion versus narratives, or subconscious versus conscious structure-elements. I think, that there is both, and that it always is good to make the subconscious conscious, that