From: Richard Brodie (richard@brodietech.com)
Date: Sun 15 Jun 2003 - 18:12:46 GMT
Wade wrote:
<<The performance model truly _accepts_ this triad of condition, and
calls the necessary and sufficient agent of this cultural continuation
and evolution the 'meme'. (Which, AFAIK, was the original proposed use
of this word- the unit of cultural evolution.)>>
I look forward to someone some day explaining exactly what the "performance
model" is. :)
"Meme" was proposed by Dawkins as a name for a cultural replicator analogous
to the gene, and later refined by him and Dennett to be a mental replicator.
As I pointed out in my 1995 book, meme is not the only cultural replicator
nor THE unit of cultural evolution. Artifacts and subcultures can also
fruitfully be looked on as replicators.
Richard Brodie
www.memecentral.com
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