Re: Central questions of memetics

From: Lawrence H. de Bivort (debivort@umd5.umd.edu)
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    On Thu, 11 May 2000, Chuck Palson wrote:

    >this list and elsewhere. For social utility to have any meaning -- and
    >testability -- it has to start with the various strategies that physical persons
    >use in a society to acquire the goods and services they need to survive. Access

    Goods, services, AND, perhaps more importantly, emotional and aesthetic
    values. I suspect it is the latter that confound the economists and
    sociologists <grin>

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