Re: electric meme bombs

From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Sun 03 Nov 2002 - 23:57:23 GMT

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    On Sunday, November 3, 2002, at 04:38 , Grant Callaghan wrote:

    > The pattern was not consciously shaped to look like that. It was as
    > much an accident as the rock that looks like a face.

    Exactly. And many mimicries _could_ be part of human nature and culture simply thrust upon it by genetic accident, a much bigger part than perhaps we're willing to admit. The ability to mimic certainly is.

    But the memesinthemind does not admit of mimicry in this way. At least, I don't think it does.

    - Wade

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