RE: objections to "memes"

From: Gatherer, D. (Derek) (D.Gatherer@organon.nhe.akzonobel.nl)
Date: Thu Mar 23 2000 - 13:35:33 GMT

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From: "Gatherer, D. (Derek)" <D.Gatherer@organon.nhe.akzonobel.nl>
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Subject: RE: objections to "memes"
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    Richard:
    So I ask again, how do you explain it? [a learned behavior]

    Derek:
    Oh, I can't explain it at all. If I ever understood how and why people
    learn, I would have stayed in academia.

    But seriously, I don't think it matters that I can't explain learning at the
    neurobiological level. How a behaviour replicates isn't really what
    memetics is about. What memetics is about is the way that learned
    behaviours evolve under selective pressures, how cultures diverge etc. It's
    a population-level rather than an individual-level approach.

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