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<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?>
>
> As the advert says, true... true...
>
Vincent
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