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On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Joe E. Dees wrote:
>The neat distinction is that the imprinted slight song variations are
>communicating nothing that the absence of such variation would
>not communicate, and the birds cannot get together and agree or
>disagree on either a significance or a change in significance for the
>variations; the choice of narrow vs. wide ties communicates and
>means different things (the value of being in vs. out of style) as long
>as we agree to let it do so.
I still don't understand why memes should have meaning -- the significance of
significance, if you like, for memetics. I'm really not questioning meaning in
general terms -- how could we do without it??? But what, precisely, is the
place of meaning _in memetics_?
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