From: Wade T. Smith (wade.t.smith@verizon.net)
Date: Mon 26 May 2003 - 20:38:28 GMT
On Monday, May 26, 2003, at 03:22 PM, Keith wrote:
> As I have recently stated, "meme" is a slightly more restrictive word
> than
> idea. You can have an idea without communicating it, but if it is
> communicated, the idea (information) has replicated making it a meme
> (replicating information).
Of course, this model denies any agency to the performance itself,
which is also effected by aleatory influences, and both are agencies in
cultural evolution. As a theory of idea transmission, the above seems
whole, but as a theory of cultural evolution, it comes up short by a
major era or three, and if a meme is to be the required quantum of
culture, then the above theory of idea propagation should not be using
it.
- Wade
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