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From: Raymond Recchia <rrecchia@mail.clarityconnect.com>
Subject: Re: Monkeys stone herdsman in Kenya
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> 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.
>
An artifact.
>
> Raymond O. Recchia
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