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From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Sat Feb 16 2002 - 16:15:35 GMT

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    On Saturday, February 16, 2002, at 05:50 , Steve Drew wrote:

    > As you may be aware i am not too keen on behaviour only, as i feel it
    > reduces us to automata. Nothing wrong with a dose of skepticism though.

    Actually, I really see no mechanism that reduces us to automata from the
    memes-are-behavior-only stance.

    After all, all I am saying is that _memes_ are behavior, not that all of
    our behaviors are automatic or reducible.

    And memes are behaviors that have a large and complex process (the
    meme-factory) churning them out, and that factory is complex and
    indeterminate- it is the brain/mind.

    And it is a stance, a perspective, not a declaration.

    - Wade

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