Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id RAA03936 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Sat, 11 Mar 2000 17:13:26 GMT X-Sender: rrecchia@mail.clarityconnect.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk From: Raymond Recchia <rrecchia@mail.clarityconnect.com> Subject: Re: Monkeys stone herdsman in Kenya Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 12:11:48 -0500 Message-ID: <1259327788-4347232@smtp.clarityconnect.com> Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Joe wrote:
>Memes cannot exist in the absence of a physical substrate (the
>brain) for the cognition which provides them an environment in
>which they may exist and mutate, and the body which provides
>them an opportunity to replicate.
If someone has a meme writes it down in a book and the book sits around for
a hundred years before someone picks it and acquires the meme what
terminology do you use to describe the information in the book when no one
has the meme in their head? I'm not saying that you have to call it a meme
when it is sitting in the book I am curious as to what you would call it.
Raymond O. Recchia
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