RE: Silent memes

From: Richard Brodie (richard@brodietech.com)
Date: Tue 08 Jul 2003 - 15:03:09 GMT

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Scott wrote:

<<Looking at an artifact could cause differing ideations in two people, yet given these differing ideations the two people could still produce a similar reproduction (ectype) of the original object. The ideas will be more different in each person than the objects they create using these ideas.>>

Well said. As I have repeated numerous times, artifacts may sometimes be fruitfully looked upon as cultural replicators. That does not mean an artifact is a meme.

Richard Brodie www.memecentral.com

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