From: Philip Jonkers (philosophimur@dygo.com)
Date: Sun 18 May 2003 - 15:16:36 GMT
Wade:
>At any rate, my main point was that a common mistake made in popular
>memetics is one of calling something like 'baseball' a meme, where
>baseball is in fact a huge aggregation of thousands of cultural
>processes, and to call it a single meme would be madness.
By the same token calling a computer a meme would also be madness
then since a computer is also a vast conglomerate of countless smart
engineering inventions that calling it one meme would also
be madness???
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