Re: Distinguishing characteristics

From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Thu 17 Oct 2002 - 02:39:47 GMT

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    > When I look out on the lush lawn of the park I see a number of birds
    > hopping around competing for crumbs of bread, etc. How do I know
    > which ones to call robins, which to call crows, which to call pigeons,
    > etc.? They are all birds, but each type has distinguishing
    > characteristics. Individual birds also have distinguishing
    > characteristics. So how can we distinguish memes from other types of
    > behavior and experience? What are the distinguishing characteristics
    > of a meme? If we can't find any, we can't do much with the concept.
    > If we can't agree on what they are, it will be difficult to define
    > them. So how do we go about deciding what the distinguishing
    > characteristics of a meme are?
    >
    > Grant
    >
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    Concepts replicated via behavior.
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