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Dear Salice,
> > What I mean is that the memes for treating her children were passed on
> > to her *before* she enacted them in real life. This second enactment may
> > be called imitation, but it is *not* the imitation by which the memes
> > are inherited. That's my point.
>
> Hm i still don't really know what you want to show. Someday the
> daughter got treated bad by her mother. She remembered that. Ten or
> twenty years later she treats her daughter just the same. So it's
> still imitation just delayed in time.
>
OK. According to the memes-in-brain view, she already had the meme in
her brain before she treated her daughter according to it. This
treatment, whether we call it imitation or not, is *not* the imitation
required, according to the theory, to transmit the meme to her brain.
That had to occur earlier, because the transmission occurred earlier.
Es claro?
Bill
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