Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id JAA02004 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Thu, 8 Mar 2001 09:13:11 GMT Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 08:22:12 +0000 To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: Are there any memes out there? Message-ID: <20010308082212.A990@reborntechnology.co.uk> References: <20010306224836.AAA20739@camailp.harvard.edu@[205.240.180.70]> <20010307004616.A1476@reborntechnology.co.uk> <3AA616C7.956EAD7C@bioinf.man.ac.uk> <3.0.5.32.20010307192147.007fc900@mailhost.rongenet.sk.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.15i In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20010307192147.007fc900@mailhost.rongenet.sk.ca>; from hawkeye@rongenet.sk.ca on Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 07:21:47PM -0600 From: Robin Faichney <robin@reborntechnology.co.uk> Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 07:21:47PM -0600, Lloyd Robertson wrote:
> Interesting, until recently I was of the opinion that memes existed both
> inside and outside the head, in different forms. Now I am tending to
> believe that memes do not exist in either place - artifacts, behaviors and
> neural patterning are all phenotypes. What do you think?
I belong to the camp that believes it's generally misleading and
unproductive to seek very close parallels between genetics and memetics,
but in fact this is not too far from my view -- I see memes as *encoded*
in artifacts, behaviour and neural patterns, so to view these as memetic
phenotypes -- memotypes, if you like -- is maybe not *too* misleading.
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