Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id MAA00886 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Thu, 29 Mar 2001 12:44:15 +0100 Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 12:38:23 +0100 To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: Memetic Paradigms Message-ID: <20010329123823.B1161@reborntechnology.co.uk> References: <3AC259D1.30409.499F91@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.15i In-Reply-To: <3AC259D1.30409.499F91@localhost>; from joedees@bellsouth.net on Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 09:38:25PM -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 28, 2001 at 09:38:25PM -0600, joedees@bellsouth.net wrote:
> They are not isolable atoms, like genes,
> because their existence includes their relations; memes
> necessarily relate to other memes, and these relations is part and
> parcel of what constitutes the significances of the memes.
Genes, generally, are highly interdependent too. What proportion
of our genes, do you think, is *directly* concerned with replicating
itself, rather than supporting a cluster, for which a few will
arrange the replication of all?
-- Robin Faichney Get your Meta-Information from http://www.ii01.org (CAUTION: contains philosophy, may cause heads to spin)=============================================================== This was distributed via the memetics list associated with the Journal of Memetics - Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission For information about the journal and the list (e.g. unsubscribing) see: http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/jom-emit
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Thu Mar 29 2001 - 12:48:32 BST