From: Grant Callaghan (grantc4@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu 17 Oct 2002 - 02:59:30 GMT
>...a mental predisposition to engage in instances of certain behaviors
>more frequently than one might engage in them in its absence.
>
Hmmm.  That would make behaviors such a learning our first language a meme.  
It would include all the hardwired behaviors we inherit as members of the 
human race.  All humans have a predisposition to learn language.  Somehow 
that doesn't distinguish memes from inherited behaviors.  Are there any 
other characteristics that would distinguish them further?
Grant
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