Re: The Demise of a Meme

From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Tue Mar 27 2001 - 13:46:35 BST

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    Hi Chris Taylor -

    >How many people consider memes to stop at the level of a communicable
    >disease, and how many think (like me) that everything (literally, apart
    >from mid/lower brain stuff) that is you is memetic[1] in some sense -
    >that everything about a mind is memes in the same way that the world (we
    >see) is more or less organisms (plus some rock, water and soil and
    >stuff).

    Well, who really knows, anways?

    IMHO, memes are all over behavior, but, no, mind is there without them.

    - Wade

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