RE: Labels for memes

From: Lawrence DeBivort (debivort@umd5.umd.edu)
Date: Tue Jan 30 2001 - 21:42:55 GMT

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From: "Lawrence DeBivort" <debivort@umd5.umd.edu>
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Subject: RE: Labels for memes
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    Robin, can you define how you are using the term 'information' below,
    please?

    Thanks,

    -Lawrence

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Robin Faichney

    > seeing it was useful to have a word referring specifically to mental
    > replicators...

    This is irrelevant. I'm not saying other replicators should be considered
    memes, I'm saying imitated patterns of behaviour are identical with your
    "mental replicators". Given an understanding of information, these are
    precisely the same thing.

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