Re: Individual - Collective / digest V1#1480

From: William Benzon (bbenzon@mindspring.com)
Date: Wed 25 Feb 2004 - 11:55:05 GMT

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    on 2/24/04 5:12 PM, Steven Thiele at sthiele@metz.une.edu.au wrote:

    >
    > My guess is that many caught up in memetics were once caught up in genetics.
    > Instead of seeing that the drive to find the 'key' is doomed to failure, they
    > have just swapped one 'key' for another.
    >

    I suspect that many, perhaps more, are infatuated with computers. Once youšve come to see anything as a pattern of bits, the concept of meme is a natural.

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