Re: A Question for Wade

From: Kenneth Van Oost (Kenneth.Van.Oost@village.uunet.be)
Date: Sun Nov 25 2001 - 19:11:34 GMT

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    Hi Salice,

    I am just interested,
    What are memes than from your point of view !?
    It confuses me a little bit, to read that memes can transfer ideas etc.
    Out of what consist than those ideas, if I follow the applied logic, if they
    are not memes !?
    Do you see memes as only those entities which transfer ideas, etc and not
    so mush as the tranferred information !? Or do I miss something !?
    Please eloborate !

    Thanks,

    Kenneth

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    From: <salice@gmx.net>
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    Subject: Re: A Question for Wade

    >
    > > What's so special about the "meme" term? Why can't we just use "idea",
    > > "belief", or "concept" to say the same thing? As Ernst Mayr says of the
    > > meme:
    >
    > 'idea' 'belief' and 'concept' are more high-leveled abstract terms. memes
    > can work on a lower level. memes can transfer ideas, beliefs and concepts
    but
    > they don't have to.
    >
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