Re: memetics-digest V1 #1319

From: Dace (edace@earthlink.net)
Date: Sun 23 Mar 2003 - 19:51:21 GMT

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> From: "Scott Chase" <ecphoric@hotmail.com>
>
> >From: "Wade T. Smith" <wade.t.smith@verizon.net>
> >
> >On Wednesday, March 19, 2003, at 04:15 PM, Ted wrote:
> >
> >>Self-replicators. Remember, memes are alive.
> >
> >Jeez.... That goes beyond all absurdity.
> >
> >Nothing, in this universe or any other, is self-replicating.
> >
> >
> I thought that attributing life to memes was the most absurd part of what
> you replied to. Memes alive? Have we resurrected animism?

If I attributed life to animals would you accuse me of animism?

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