Re: Monkeys stone herdsman in Kenya

From: Joe E. Dees (joedees@bellsouth.net)
Date: Sat Mar 11 2000 - 21:19:42 GMT

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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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