Re: What are memes made of?

From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Thu Feb 17 2000 - 18:53:07 GMT

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Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 13:53:07 -0500
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    On 02/17/00 13:24, Joe E. Dees said this-

    >One difference between them lies in the
    >necessity for there to be self-aware, intentional and signifying
    >people to create, mutate, transmit and receive memes; this
    >restriction does not apply to genes.

    Even within my predilection for the socio-biologic in all of this, I see
    Joe's definition of meme here as the only possible one in which to erect
    any framework at all of study and analyzation. It is the utter
    _impossibility_ of studying a meme if one considers birdsong a meme that
    I am most insistent upon repeating. And I _like_ the idea of such things
    as memes depending upon this state of consciousness.

    - Wade

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