From: xuelin he (hxuelin@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat 07 Jun 2003 - 16:11:52 GMT
Dear all,
Meme itself becomes a meme or a meta-meme since the
day it
was created. I don't know there is anybody who
questions the
logical correctness of meme concept. If the word
"meme" still
suggests a relation, to some extent, with its
etymological orgin--
imitation, it can not deny its foundation on man-made
actions.
Following this line of thinking, it seems unversally
true that any
man-made action can be copied. To put it in another
way, a first
man does it, a second man can imitate it. The only
difference
between them is a matter of degree rather than a
categorical
distinction, even though the ideas underlying the
action and its
copying action may be quite different. Perhaps just
because of
easy copying of our man-made things, we need the law
of patent
to protect our originality. What's more, copying is
not only
confined to human culture. As science and technology
update,
biological copying will be as usual as our cultural
copying.
However, a scientist should keep alert to any so
called "universal
truth". I wonder if there is something about a man
which can not
be imitated or copied by another.
All the best.
Xuelin
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