Re: What are memes made of?

From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Wed Feb 23 2000 - 19:23:34 GMT

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    Joe E. Dees made this comment not too long ago --

    >Where's your proof that any species'
    >birdsong modifies outside the genetically mandated critical period,
    >or is capable in any case of any more than a tiny number of very
    >similar "variations"?

    Yes! That is the question!

    I see 'memetics' being applied to birdsong as entirely a multiplication
    of entities, and as such, see those who apply such entities or use them
    in the analyzation of these behavioral and genetically mandated phenonema
    as pursuing useless leads- red hearings, to make a pun....

    - Wade

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