Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id CAA19749 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Tue, 15 Jan 2002 02:16:56 GMT Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 21:12:35 -0500 Subject: Re: Knowledge, Memes and Sensory Perception Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed From: "Wade T. Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <200201150107.g0F178g22772@mail2.bigmailbox.com> Message-Id: <576822D4-095D-11D6-A443-003065B9A95A@harvard.edu> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.480) Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
On Monday, January 14, 2002, at 08:07 , Joe Dees wrote:
> What humans have that is different from all but possibly the higher
> apes and some cetaceans is the C-meme (communication meme); a meme that
> must be communicated by means of a telling or saying, that is, encoding
> in an arbitrary (that is, not instinctual, but created and variable -
> as in multiple language possibilities) commonly understood symbol
> system or language.
I guess I'm sort of on record as wanting that to be the only meme around.
- Wade
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