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From: "Kenneth Van Oost" <Kenneth.Van.Oost@village.uunet.be>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Monkeys stone herdsman in Kenya
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Joe E. Dees <joedees@bellsouth.net>
> To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
> Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2000 10:40 AM
> Subject: Re: Monkeys stone herdsman in Kenya
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> > From: "Kenneth Van Oost" <Kenneth.Van.Oost@village.uunet.be>
> > To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
> > Subject: Re: Monkeys stone herdsman in Kenya
> > Date sent: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 10:48:58 +0100
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> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Wade T.Smith <wade_smith@harvard.edu>
> > > To: Memetics Discussion List <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
> > > Sent: Monday, March 06, 2000 12:55 AM
> > > Subject: RE: Monkeys stone herdsman in Kenya
> > >
> > >
> > > > Richard Brodie made this comment not too long ago --
> > > >
> > > > >Memes will propagate through any means possible.
> > > >
> > > > "Life will find a way."
> > > >
> > > > - Wade
> > > >
> > >
> > > <Agreed! Eventually memes will seek for any opportunity to dispose them-
> > > selves from the body and in the end they will let it fade away
> completely.
> > > By means of gathering knowledge (and the possibility for it) memes will
> > > become an on itself existing subjective,really in a manner which
> proceeds
> > > from their own sentiment of conception.
> > >
> > 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.
>
>
> <That is maybe what memes wants us to believe!>
>
I could answer that memes, like genes, lack self-conscious
awareness, thus they could not possibly WANT anything, but most
likely you would answer that maybe they want us to believe that,
too! ;~)
>
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Kenneth
> > >
> > >
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