Re: Memes Meta-Memes and Politics 3 of 3 (1988, updates 2002)

From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Mon Feb 18 2002 - 18:46:47 GMT

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    On Monday, February 18, 2002, at 01:19 , Francesca S. Alcorn wrote:

    > there has to be a word that recognizes processes that function
    > across/at all levels of complexity.

    It might be called sociobiology.

    Which, IMHO, answers almost all of memetics' questions, goes on to ask
    and answer a few more, and gets cold shouldered as a result.

    Which is a pity, because it doesn't disclaim memetics at all. It just
    puts it in a rather smaller place than it might want to be.

    - Wade

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