Re: New uses for old artifacts

From: Wade Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Tue 03 Dec 2002 - 17:06:37 GMT

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    On Tuesday, December 3, 2002, at 12:03 , Richard Brodie wrote:

    > No one argues with this. The queer thing is that members of this list
    > seem
    > so passionate about applying the word "meme" to various aspects of
    > cultural
    > evolution rather than coming up with new words for things other than
    > mental
    > replicators.

    Well, mea culpa, I guess.

    On the other hand, 'mental replicators' still seems, to me, to be a nonsense phrase.

    - Wade

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