RE: MIT research reports rats dream of mazes

From: Vincent Campbell (v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Jan 26 2001 - 11:31:27 GMT

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From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk>
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Subject: RE: MIT research reports rats dream of mazes
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            <I don't think it has to have been culturally transmitted to be
    transmissable - if one
    > rat followed another (for whatever reason) and happened to be shown the
    > maze
    > solution, the meme would have jumped without any need for volition or
    > culture. And
    > anyway, why is transmission a vital part of meme definition?>
    >
            Simple, because memetics is an evolutionary model of information
    transmission. In other words the subject of study is the process by which
    cultural information is passed between people.

            Vincent

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