Re: transmission

From: Philip Jonkers (philosophimur@dygo.com)
Date: Thu 15 May 2003 - 12:46:07 GMT

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Wade:
>> But- in the case of the performance model, memes are not only
>> evidential and non-abstract, but absolute and defined with certain
>> rigidity. They are not assumptions about the way a mind, or minds,
>> work, but a working theory about the process of cultural evolution, at
>> the level of quantum units.

Douglas:
>the reference to quantum suggests the idea that a meme may be one thing under
>certain conditions and another thing under different conditions.

You don't want to carry the analogy with quantum physics too far!

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