RE: meaning in memetics

From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Fri Feb 18 2000 - 19:22:01 GMT

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Subject: RE: meaning in memetics
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    On 02/18/00 13:54, Lawrence H. de Bivort said this-

    >'He" depended on a statistical approach, if I recall rightly, and
    >one of the themes was his inability to predict the emergence of a truly
    >unique actor that would throw off the statistical mass prediction.

    Yes, the mutation....

    Strange how that throws all this into a cocked hat every time....

    - Wade

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