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Dear Vincent,
> All sorts of processes both external and internal go into audience
> decoding of media content, so much so that I just don't see how what
> apparently exists in one mind can appear in another mind (let alone millions
> of others) in exactly the same form as in the original mind.
Indeed. Memes do not breed true as genes do. That is an extremely
important difference between memes and genes, IMO.
Best,
Bill
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