Re: Monkeys stone herdsman in Kenya

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Date: Sat Mar 11 2000 - 20:35:55 GMT

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    Bob wrote:
    > How about some suggestions, folks

    How about...... PROTO_MEMES?

    Tyger

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Robert G. Grimes" <grimes@fcol.com>
    To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
    Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2000 11:16 PM
    Subject: Re: Monkeys stone herdsman in Kenya

    > Raymond,
    >
    > There have been many descriptions on the list; meme seed, meme husk,
    symbolized
    > meme, meme representation, etc., etc., etc., take your pick or make up a
    new
    > one. I kind of like meme seed, myself, although I started off with
    husk...
    >
    > Inactive meme, nascent meme, idle meme, incomplete meme, and we can go on
    > forever, I believe, and we do need some kind of standard nomenclature for
    it, I
    > think. I'm sure that there is one we haven't thought of in the past...
    >
    > How about some suggestions, folks...
    >
    > Cordially,
    >
    > Bob
    >
    > Raymond Recchia wrote:
    >
    > >
    > >
    > > 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.
    > >
    >
    > --
    > Bob Grimes
    >
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    >
    > Man is not in control, but the man who knows he is not in control is more
    > in control...
    >
    > Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore....."
    >
    >
    >
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