Re: DNA Culture .... Trivia?

From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Tue Jan 16 2001 - 14:39:29 GMT

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    Hi Robin Faichney --

    >neural memes have no way to get from one
    >brain to another, just as behavioural ones have no way of being stored
    >between instances of the behaviour

    I'm still concerned, vis a vis genetic/memetic analogs, that sex ain't
    been analogued memetically as well, because, well, dammit, that _is_ the
    genetic passage. What is sexual to memetics?

    The memetic analog of sex is "some sort of communication", granted, but,
    perhaps we need to look at communication a bit more closely, with a bit
    more of a genetic component, with a bit more of a basic, autonomic,
    functioning of why and how we communicate and what gets communicated.

    Not that a lot of us aren't doing this, but, in the effort to consiliate,
    I think more should be done memetically to define where and what
    communication _is_. What is birdsong to us or us to birdsong?

    - Wade

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