Re: meaning in memetics

From: Lawrence H. de Bivort (debivort@umd5.umd.edu)
Date: Wed Feb 09 2000 - 16:05:13 GMT

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    On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Soc. Lab. 2 wrote:

    ><snip from robin/joe>

    >> >the foundation of memetics. Do you even know what the
    >word=20
    >> >"meme" means? Just as genetic characteristics are
    >enGENdered=20
    >> >(replicated) through sexual reproduction, memes are
    >reMEMbered=20
    >> >(lodged in the MEMory) by means of communicative
    >replication=20
    >> >between intentionalities.

    Please, not "Just as..."

    Genes MAY be a useful metaphor to push our thinking on memes (though my
    view is that it has overstayed its usefulness), but that is all it is, a
    metaphor. If we find memetic patterns and dynamics that are dissimilar to
    those of genes, we should not hesitate to recognize them, rather than try
    and shoe-horn memes into a genes-derived structure.

    Lawrence de Bivort
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