Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id FAA20592 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Thu, 29 Nov 2001 05:05:00 GMT Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 21:00:04 -0800 Message-Id: <200111290500.fAT504f24224@mail1.bigmailbox.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary X-Mailer: MIME-tools 4.104 (Entity 4.116) X-Originating-Ip: [216.76.250.64] From: "Joe Dees" <joedees@addall.com> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: Definition, Please Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is)
> Re: Definition, PleaseDate: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 09:05:18 -0500
> "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu> "memetics list" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>
>On 11/26/01 23:09, Joe Dees said this-
>
>>My view is option #2; that memes possess a lifecycle that includes both
>>internal and external components (L-meme + G-meme); they mutate, or not
>>(are stored) mainly within people - and in things like books and
>>databases, which are external memory and copmmunication aids, are
>>propagated between people and are selected for or against within other
>>people.
>
>Kind of like an insect's metamorphosis, then, lying in pupal stage in the
>mind after being deposited there by the adult, and, somehow, emerging
>into a behavior.
>
>Not viruses of the mind, but maggots.
>
Or tapeworms, or fleas.
>
>- Wade
>
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