RE: First Appearances

From: Paul Marsden (paulsmarsden@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Sep 22 2000 - 16:56:16 BST

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    Richard:

    I believe Dawkins first proposed that memes were internal mental
    information. In The Extended Phenotype he revised his earlier definition
    from The Selfish Gene. I used a similar definition in Virus of the Mind.

    Paul:

    Yes - it is interesting that just as population genetics and molecular genetics are two different models, so too is their a similar symmetry in memetics (population) macro memetics, - and micro memetics that operationalises the concept in a way consistent with the original coining as genes of meaning, semantic nodes in Memory. An error in my opinion would be to conflate the two.

    You might ask how the latter is Darwinian? Well, the Darwinian theory of creativity involves the mutation, recombination, semanitic drift of networks of genes of meaning to generate original innovations.

    Paul Marsden
    Graduate Research Centre in the Social Sciences
    University of Sussex
    Brighton

    p.marsden@sussex.ac.uk
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